Kamasi Washington

The GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist has become his generation’s torchbearer for progressive, improvisational music.

Dan Pfeiffer and Jen Psaki: Battling the Big Lie

In Battling The Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America, the “Pod Save America” co-host dissects how the right-wing built a massive, billionaire-funded disinformation machine powerful enough to bend reality and nearly steal the 2020 election.

Eric Holder

In Conversation with Michele Norris

In Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote—A History, a Crisis, a Plan, the former U.S. Attorney General, civil rights leader, and chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee presents a chronicle of the brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a frontlines account of how opponents are fighting to take it away; and a powerful playbook for how we can save our democracy before it’s too late.

JOHNNYSWIM

On their eponymous album JOHNNYSWIM, husband and wife duo Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano translate the memories, moments, and milestones of their journey into spirited, slick, and soulful anthems steeped in singer-songwriter tradition.

VIRTUAL: Linda Holmes

In Conversation with Ari Shapiro

The New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” returns with Flying Solo, a novel about growing up, coming home, and learning to make a life for yourself on your own terms.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

In Conversation with Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy

From the MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist comes How to Raise an Antiracist, the book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers amidst the tragedies and reckonings around racism that are rocking the country.

Ed Yong

In Conversation with Clint Smith

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Atlantic science writer and New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes comes An Immense World, presenting a grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses—aggregated through the eyes, ears, whiskers, and noses of animals—that will transform the way you perceive the world.

VIRTUAL: Katy Tur

In Conversation with Jake Sherman

In Rough Draft, the MSNBC anchor charts her path from local reporter to globe-trotting foreign correspondent and writes about her eccentric and volatile California childhood—all seen from a thousand feet in the air.

Ottessa Moshfegh

In Conversation with Barrie Hardymon

The New York Times bestselling author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation returns with a spellbinding novel that represents her most exciting leap yet. In Lapvona, a motherless shepherd boy in a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test.

Prateek Kuhad

One of India’s leading singer-songwriters, Kuhad came to global recognition in 2019 when former President Barack Obama added the breakup ballad “cold/mess” to his annual list of favorite songs. He arrives with his third studio album, The Way That Lovers Do, about love, friendship, and connectivity.