Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

A work of unusual wisdom, Yorick Goldewijk’s story collection "The Tree That Was a World" introduces a tree and the creatures surrounding it. In these pithy fables, a spider resists consuming flies, dismayed that its perfect webs never... Read More

"Bad Indians Book Club", Patty Krawec’s compelling work of literary criticism, centers stories written by marginalized people. Focused on Indigenous culture and showing that reading is essential and that addressing the hard truths of... Read More

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More

Gathering glittering selections from the fantasy great’s cherished oeuvre, "The Essential Patricia A. McKillip" is a radiant collection of fairy tales and modern fables. In a dragon’s tower, too many treasure-seeking men talk past... Read More

In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through... Read More

Nina Bargiel’s wild, magical self-help guide "The Crone Zone" is about embracing aging and accessing elder wisdom. About the life-changing benefits and joys of claiming cronehood and its “permission slip” to jettison society’s... Read More

Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s substantial social science text "The Long Heat" examines climate politics in the era of irrevocable temperature overshoot. The book begins by examining the consequences that occur when the 1.5 degrees... Read More