by Ross Gay (2022)
A radiant essay collection exploring what joy actually is. Ross Gay reveals that true joy is not the absence of suffering, but the shared connection and solidarity we forge through mutual sorrow, caregiving, and community.
Ross Gay
A celebratory, lyrical collection of essays written over the course of one year, exploring ordinary miracles, connection, and joy. Award-winning poet Ross Gay records the small daily delights of sharing seeds, loitering in public parks, hearing good music, and finding beauty in community and resilience.
Jeff Hobbs
On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America. (Bestseller)
Ross Gay
The eagerly anticipated companion to The Book of Delights, offering another year's worth of witty, effervescent, and deeply observant essayettes celebrating human kindness, soil, bird song, and the art of looking closely.
Michael B. Oren
Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America's alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship's very fabric seemed close to unraveling. Ally is the story of that enduring alliance -- and of its divides -- written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren -- a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV's Sunday morning political shows. Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land.