You think you know there are a lot of books, and then you try to pick out some non-fiction titles that come out in July and then you realize there are a lot of books. Here are some notable non-fiction books coming out this month:
consideration of beauty by angelica glass – I’m reading it right now. Glass embarked on a project of walking every street in Santa Cruz County, California, as a way to get out of her bubble and see more of the world, which gave her a chance to reflect and reflect on her past.
biological warfare by Annie Jacobsen – Jacobsen is back to haunt you. After success in nuclear warfare, Jacobsen turned his attention not to bombs but to insects (and chemicals and wires and other things that dissipate at night). This is not going well!
Our Knives Will Save Us: The Dispatches of a White Mountain Apache Chef by nephi craig – At the age of 18, Craig, under court order, enrolled in culinary school and there found a complex respite from his personal struggles. But as he became more comfortable in the kitchen, his own battle with restraint and confrontation with being the only Indigenous person in places serving largely European food led to a personal reckoning.
Unsaid: A Life in Writing by Michael Cunningham – Pulitzer Prize winning author hours One documents one’s life in writing, or as he puts it, attempts to say the unspeakable. I don’t need any more temptation than this.
small thing By Ian Bogost* – As someone who enjoys walking to the grocery store just to pick up an item, I’m already sympathetic to Ian Bogost’s framing in this book: As many things have become more convenient, they have also become less interesting. I don’t think so small thing It’s a defense of the works, but maybe not in any small way.
Shallow Blue Empire: History of pearl-diving in the Indian Ocean, 1850–1930 By Tamari Surnani Fernando – I never thought about the history of Europe’s obsession with pearls, the global trade that fueled it, or the thousands of people who, for decades, turned out to dive every day in an effort to quench this growing thirst. Salute to all the historians.
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