Spring is right around the corner, and March is full of guides for healthy living – physically and emotionally – along with coverage of historical and current events, poetry, crafts and more!
In Outlive, Peter Attia challenges conventional thinking on aging to prevent chronic disease while extending long-term health, while William Li helps readers burn fat, heal their metabolism and live longer in Eat to Beat Your Diet. In Gut Feelings, Dr. Will Cole helps readers who may have a shame-fueled relationship between what they eat and how they feel. And avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson presents the wisdom of Tai Chi, mindfulness, creativity and the art of living and dying from her late husband Lou Reed in The Art of the Straight Line.
New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik seeks to uncover the mystery of mastering a new skill in The Real Work, while Chrissy King explores how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom in The Body Liberation Project. Dan Lyons shows us the power of keeping your mouth shut in an endlessly noisy world in STFU. In How Not to Kill Yourself, Clancy Martin presents an intimate portrait of the suicidal mind, while in Push Off From Here Laura McKowen presents nine essential truths to get you through sobriety.
In Emotional Labor, Rose Hackman takes a foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day; Leah Hazard tells the inside story of where we all began – in utero – in Womb. Roxanna Asgarian reports on the murder-suicide of six children that serves as an indictment of the American foster care system in We Were Once a Family, and former refugee Dina Nayeri questions why honest asylum seekers are dismissed as liars in Who Gets Believed? Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington shine a light on how the consulting industry is bad for business, government and the economy in The Big Con; Jeff Sharlet reports on how religion, gender and materialism are contributing to America’s slow civil war in The Undertow; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture release a companion book to a Smithsonian exhibition on the history of Black futures in Afrofuturism.
Paris Hilton, the 21st century It Girl, recounts her rise from NYC club kid to becoming a household name in Paris, while Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall revisits the moment he was seriously injured covering the war in Ukraine in Saved, and NPR host Ari Shapiro tells stories from a life spent listening in The Best Strangers in the World. Laurel Braitman reckons with the loss of her larger-than-life father in What Looks Like Bravery; Laura Cathcart Robbins recounts her struggle with substance abuse as a Black woman in Stash; Kara Goucher exposes the secret world of abuse, doping, and deception on Nike’s elite running team in The Longest Race; and Sarbina Orah Mark reimagines the fairy tale to reveal our personal histories in Happily.
In The Dirty Tricks Department, John Lisle reveals the untold story of the Office of Strategic Services and its role in World War II secret warfare, while Matthew Dallek considers how the John Birch Society radicalized the American Right in Birchers. Hal Johnson takes a humorous look at twenty pivotal moments in American history and what would have happened if things had gone differently in Impossible Histories. Sarah Bakewell reviews seven centuries of humanist thought, from Erasmus to Zora Neale Hurston, in Humanly Possible; and Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman reveals what the Bible really says about the end in Armageddon.
Alison Roman returns with a simple, stylish dessert cookbook, Sweet Enough; Jocelyn Delk Adams presents more than 80 soulful recipes for celebrating life’s big and small moments in Everyday Grand; and fitness expert John Lewis urges readers to adopt a vegan diet with 75 recipes and a 3-step plan in Badass Vegan. In crafts, Rachael Dobbins makes your embroidery pop with 3-D techniques in Modern Embroidery; Sushma Hegde inspires beginners to paint beautiful florals in Wildflower Watercolor; and Nichole Vogelsinger returns with a guide to beading/embellishing, stumpwork, fabric painting, and needle felting in Needles Out.
Finally, poetry lovers rejoice: Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed, explores the emotional terrain of fatherhood in Above Ground, and Charif Shanahan continues to meditate on identity, queer desire, mortality and anti-Blackness in his second collection, Trace Evidence.
And don’t forget to check out this month’s Peak Picks!
~posted by Frank
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