Former senator Gary Hart elucidates the urgent challenges that face the US in his erudite essay "The American Republic Can Save American Democracy". Throughout, Hart holds multiple periods in US history in tension: its founding moments,... Read More

The free verse poems collected in "The Natural Order of Things" apply scientific intelligence to universal human concerns. Physician Richard Donze’s poetry collection "The Natural Order of Things" blends medical experience and personal... Read More

To inspire social awareness, the photographs of "Moment" share “a view of the world through a different angle.” Robert Abad’s photography collection "Moment" draws on an extensive, thirty-year archive of travel photographs. Its... Read More

In an imagined letter to her father, Arisa White writes, “Do you remember, I bear the name you conjured, its attention turned to your shorelines, to the father missing in us both?” Though he never answers, White travels to Guyana,... Read More

Often fiery and always authentic, the poems collected in "Feed the White Wolf" are fearless in addressing addiction and mental illness. Patrick Lahey’s poetic memoir "Feed the White Wolf" is about surviving addiction. Following a loose... Read More

When a teacher takes her life, an unnamed narrator proves determined to ensure that her story is not lost to memory. Driven more by psychology than its plot, "The Teacher" is a chronology-jumping character study about the individual... Read More

"The Worst First Day" is an accessible history of segregation and racism that encourages critical thinking. In 1957, the simple act of going to high school transformed Elizabeth Eckford into a nationally recognized figure. She and her... Read More

The book shatters the mirror of traditional literary models, and holds the cold, sharp shards, shining, up to the light. Literary fireworks abound in Peter Quinones’s "Postmodern Deconstruction Madhouse", a cosmopolitan collection of... Read More