Books

Frida Kahlo: Love Letters Suzanne Barbezat Written in her late teens around the accident that reshaped her body, these letters catch a painter becoming herself in a voice far less certain than the public Frida. 1 recommender Friends and Strangers J. Courtney Sullivan A friendship across twenty years and an employment contract, warm and quietly unequal. 1 recommender Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution James Grant Burke and Fox were close allies until the French Revolution ended the friendship in public. 1 recommender From Coexistence to Conquest Victor Kattan The legal history of the conflict's origins, argued alongside rather than separately from the political history. 1 recommender From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia Peter Jackson The Mongol empire outlasted its conquests by centuries, and this covers what came after Genghis. 1 recommender From Here to the Great Unknown Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough The memoir Lisa Marie Presley began before her death, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, tells the story of Elvis's only child. 1 recommender From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in Transition Suzy Hansen A journalist who has lived in Istanbul over a decade watches a fragile democracy become an autocracy, at the scale of one neighbourhood and its shopkeepers. 1 recommender From Scratch Tembi Locke A widow returns to her husband's Sicilian village with their daughter, and is taken in by the family who once rejected her. 1 recommender From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks Brooks on why professional decline arrives earlier than expected, and what to build instead. 1 recommender From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Two children run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum and stumble onto a genuine mystery. 1 recommender Fuera de serie Malcolm Gladwell Traducción al español de Outliers, de Malcolm Gladwell, en edición de bolsillo de Debolsillo con traducción de Pedro Cifuentes Huertas. Full Engagement! Brian Tracy Tracy on unlocking the effort employees hold back: clear expectations, recognition, autonomy, and removing the fear that shuts people down. G-Man Beverly Gage Fifty years of J. Edgar Hoover, drawn from files that outlived everyone he tried to ruin. 1 recommender Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Jorge Amado Jorge Amado's Brazilian novel of a bar owner and his cook in the cacao town of Ilhéus, in the 2006 Vintage paperback. 1 recommender Galileo at Work Stillman Drake 1 recommender Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh A young sociologist embeds with a Chicago crack-dealing gang and upends what he thought he knew about the urban poor. 1 recommender Gap Creek Robert Morgan Robert Morgan's novel follows a young Appalachian couple's first hard year of marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. 1 recommender Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Norman Finkelstein Gaza reconstructed from the human-rights record, then a study of how that record got softened. Gaze and Voice as Love Objects Renata Salecl, Slavoj Žižek Lacanian essays on why looking and listening can become objects of love, edited by Salecl and Žižek. General Sun, My Brother Jacques Stephen Alexis 1 recommender Genome Matt Ridley Matt Ridley tours the human genome one chromosome at a time, turning genetics into a story about who we are and how we came to be. 2 recommenders Geopedia Marcia Bjornerud A geologist's short book of curiosities about rocks and the Earth, from Princeton University Press. 1 recommender George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar Imran N. Hosein A short piece on Shaw's remarks about Islam and a scholar's reply to them. Germinal Émile Zola 1 recommender Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife Francesca Wade What happened to Gertrude Stein's reputation after she died, and who decided what we would remember. 1 recommender Get Paid More and Promoted Faster Brian Tracy Career advancement treated as a solvable problem rather than a matter of luck or waiting your turn. Get Smart! Brian Tracy Tracy contrasts the thinking patterns of high and low performers, framed as switches you can consciously flip. Getting Rich Your Own Way Brian Tracy Tracy maps the routes people actually take to wealth, and argues you should pick the one that fits who you already are. Getting Things Done David Allen A complete system for capturing and acting on everything competing for your attention, starting with getting it out of your head. 2 recommenders Getting to Yes Roger Fisher, William Ury Roger Fisher and William Ury present the Harvard method of principled negotiation, focused on interests rather than positions to reach better agreements. 1 recommender Gettysburg William A. Frassanito A forensic reconstruction of the Civil War's most famous photographs, matched back to the ground where they were taken. 1 recommender Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag A Bangalore family gets suddenly rich, and something in them quietly rots. 1 recommender Ghetto Klown John Leguizamo Leguizamo's Tony-nominated stage show reborn as comics, illustrating his rise from struggling actor to stage star with the motion prose can't capture. Ghost Stories Siri Hustvedt A novelist writes about four decades with Paul Auster and his death, and about what memory does to the people left behind. 1 recommender Ghosts of the Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry Seventy-four children died waiting in a schoolyard beside a hill it would have taken a minute to climb. 1 recommender Gilead Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer-winning novel is a dying minister's luminous letter to his young son. 1 recommender