The Book Lover’s Almanac / A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists / Alex Johnson / British Library Publishing / Hardcover $29.99 (296pp) / 978-0-7123-5424-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The... Read More

“The science of biology is just realizing that it has only explored the tip of the iceberg, and that one surprise after another is opening up in the field of plants. This is just crying out for more books. Would you like a small... Read More

Already All the Love / Diana FaridShar Tuiasoa, illustrator / Little Bee Books / Hardcover $12.99 (18pp) / 978-1-4998-1565-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Colorful hearts and stars spatter the pages of this celebratory... Read More

“I think social movements are living processes and their impacts, small or large, are felt over time. History isn’t a series of isolated incidents, rather it is a chain of contexts linking up to form the present and set the... Read More

Making Skeletons Dance / Peter MacsovszkyJohn Minahane, translator / Seagull Books / Hardcover $29.00 (385pp) / 978-1-80309-414-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Peter Macsovszky’s philosophical novel Making... Read More

Reviewer Joseph Pete Interviews Nick Rees Gardner, Author of Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts / The short story is to fiction what espresso is to coffee—intense, precise, and yes, short. Maybe that intensity and precision is why... Read More

“Sex workers face rampant occupational discrimination, especially in banking and financial systems. American Express, CashApp, Chase Bank, Paypal, Wells Fargo, Venmo, and others already refuse to process payments for sex workers across... Read More

Telling the Bees / An Interspecies Monologue / Dominic Pettman / Fordham University Press / Softcover $24.95 (192pp) / 978-1-5315-0849-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Made up of journal entries written between 2019 and... Read More