Glossier debut on Instagram in 2014. Today, the company is worth over $1B. Since then, the brand has promoted its "effortless, no makeup, makeup" to compete with well-established brands like L'oreal and Maybelline. In Glossy, author Marisa Meltzer draws back the curtain to reveal an excessively privileged and well-connected woman who used her advantages to…
Renowned legal scholar Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960 in By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners…
“My best friend, Larissa, died three years ago.” Eirinie Carson writes, “ … But this is not a eulogy.” The Dead Are Gods is a tale of grief after the death of a close friend. Larissa and Eirinie met as teenagers at a hard rock concert. Over the following decades, their lives twist, move, and…
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I don't know about you, but since the days of errant COVID-19 my conception of time and the passing of time has been wholly transformed. I find…
“Let me just exist with you, happier than ever.” For much of his life, Canadian actor Elliot Page experienced gender dysphoria that made him extremely uncomfortable in his own body. The intense pressure Page felt to dress and act in a certain way almost drove him to quit show business during the aftermath of his…
Staying is not always a choice, and I have lived and lost enough to know that. But the way I think about grief is that it is the great tug-of-war, and sometimes the flag is on the side you don’t want it to be on. And sometimes, the game has exhausted all of its joy,…
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and…
Brave the Wild River: the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny is a narrative nonfiction "genre bender". Part history, part adventure story, and part popular science work, this fun-loving book might be perfect to read during a camping trip. Botanists Elzeda Clover and Lois…
Creating special language to influence people’s behavior and beliefs is so effective in part simply because speech is the first thing we’re willing to change about ourselves . . . and also the last thing we let go.” Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism What makes cults so captivating? What makes them powerful? And could cult influence…
It can be argued that rugged individualism and American are synonymous. You can't have the American dream without the idea that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will ultimately succeed. Instead, as income inequality rises around us, we are left with shame and self-blame for our condition. Why is there so much poverty adjacent…
Install this application on your home screen for quick and easy access when you’re on the go.
Just tap then “Add to Home Screen”
