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

In the best of circumstances, juvenile justice treads a tenuous path between punishment and rehabilitation. In 2009, a scandal broke in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, that showed... Read More

These are transcriptions of fifty interviews Moyers conducted for the third incarnation of Bill Moyers Journal, which ran on PBS from 2007 to 2010. Politically, he is an... Read More

At precisely midnight, in the midst of a raging storm, with lightning flashing and thunder crashing, a child is born who grows to envision and invent new technologies that... Read More

Novelist, playwright, and non-fiction author Caryl Phillips has been the “other” in several cultures: in 1950s Britain after his family migrated from St. Kitts; in the US,... Read More

Why that “peculiar institution,” slavery, spread and festered in a country built on freedom and how its false depiction as a benevolent system, in which loving masters cared... Read More