“Women hold up half the sky”—Chinese proverb
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly...
"Astonishing....One of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness and her astonishing resurrection.
Karr's longing for...
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost...