In their exciting speculative book "How We Ended Racism", Justin Williams and Shelly Tygielski envision a future in which racism is unknown. Born of the need to do more than just talk about their despair and outrage over COVID-19 and the... Read More

"The Spirituality of Dreaming" repackages dreaming as a life-enhancing, revolutionary act resulting in access to fonts of sacred energy. Kelly Bulkeley declares that dreaming is the most democratic and accessible of all the spiritual... Read More

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More

Stephen Robert Miller issues an appeal for realistic, long-term responses to climate change in "Over the Seawall", a book that examines failed attempts to control nature. Often, the expensive, complicated engineering projects that are... Read More

A motherless, neurodivergent boy bonds with his childless teacher in Elaine Feeney’s novel "How to Build a Boat". Jamie’s first day of secondary school was a complete catastrophe. But he also met Tess, an English teacher who treats... Read More

"Generation Dread" probes the psychological, emotional, and spiritual impacts of climate change with recommendations for turning ecoanxiety into action. With the planet appearing to be growing ever more hostile to life, ecoanxiety,... Read More

In Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s novel "Forgetting", an insomniac grapples with the past and the future of a world perhaps beyond saving. Alma’s grandfather did not die in a concentration camp, but sometimes she says he did. And... Read More

Afghani young adults face hazardous, uncertain futures in Siamak Herawi’s novel "Tali Girls". Kowsar was quite young when the government built a school in Tali, her village. Though she shows great academic promise, the Taliban ends her... Read More