The haunting short stories of Mikołaj Grynberg’s collection concern Jewish life and identity in Poland. The book’s thirty-one short stories alternate between being told... Read More

Travis Lupick’s "Light Up the Night" takes a compassionate look at the US’s drug overdose crisis and those working to address it. Two visionary reformers who themselves... Read More

"The Atlas of Disappearing Places" is a virtual tour of coastal regions that are vulnerable to climate change. “We come from the sea,” it contends, so protecting the sea is... Read More

Catherine Coleman Flowers returned to Alabama’s Cotton Belt, a place she loves “despite its tortured history,” to continue her career in community and economic... Read More

Historical figures reevaluate the legacy of an abolitionist in Zoë Wicomb’s novel "Still Life". Plagued by writer’s block, an author allows the contemporaries of Thomas... Read More

Combining personal experiences with scholarly insight, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick: And Other Essays is essential reading for our times. These essays examine race,... Read More

Natalie Hopkinson makes an impassioned case for artists to have a more central role in rethinking societal problems in "A Mouth Is Always Muzzled". The book brilliantly recounts... Read More

Lagemann’s illuminating work argues that college prison programs have wide-ranging benefits for all. In "Liberating Minds", Ellen Condliffe Lagemann persuasively argues for... Read More

A visual narrative of photographs accompanies an inquisitive written narrative to show the link between rural and urban landscapes. Who has the right to decide how land in the... Read More

Alice Walker, too restless to retire, has a great deal more to say in meditations, essays, and letters. In her latest collection of short prose, we learn that Alice Walker once... Read More

In his popular and enduring A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn offers a very different account of American history than the one that generations of... Read More

Henning Mankell is best known as a crime writer. "The Shadow Girls" is a novel about a different sort of crime: the treatment of desperate immigrants in the country where they... Read More