Biography & Memoir
Schoenberg: Why He Matters
Paperback
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Hardback
A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Paperback
Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
Hardback
The story of a young, Black Communist Party organiser wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator