"Rebel Speak" records searing, insightful dialogues between Bryonn Rolly Bain and activists dedicated to police abolition and fighting mass incarceration. Bain speaks with... Read More

Thorough in analyzing the history and psychology of work and exhaustion, Jonathan Malesic’s book suggests ways to revamp a system that burns people out. Malesic quit his... Read More

Jamie Goode’s full-bodied "The Goode Guide to Wine" tastes its way through the industry for consumers and the trade. Original, sensory-fused titles, including “Mouthfeel... Read More

The threat of war has long been the most persuasive tool of statesmanship, made the better if you occasionally back it up on the battlefield. Diplomacy has a place, yes, but the... Read More

The surprising trajectory of the shared economy is laid bare in Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig. Out of the 2008 financial collapse and into a world of unfulfilling work on... Read More

Julie Sze’s clear and authoritative "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" discusses the history and philosophy of environmental justice, drawing a link between... Read More

Rebecca J. Lester’s illuminating "Famished" goes behind the scenes at an eating disorders clinic to present its operations in direct terms. Its picture of the delicate... Read More

Rabbi Michael Lerner’s "Revolutionary Love" is not so much a book as a manifesto, the public declaration of a political philosophy determined to save people from... Read More

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s "Meat Planet" is a thoughtful examination of the technological, ethical, and cultural issues swirling around the development of artificial flesh.... Read More

Drew Harvell’s "Ocean Outbreak" is an engaging, eye-opening report on the diseases affecting the health of the ocean. The world’s warming waters precipitate marine disease,... Read More

Of all the figurative flavors of Kool-Aid to keep you from facing reality, perhaps the most popular is the belief that falling in love quickly leads to a life lived happily ever... Read More

People live as singles in mounting numbers, even in tradition-oriented countries. In "Happy Singlehood", Elyakim Kislev brings a researcher’s eye to bear on this... Read More