The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit’s "No Straight Road Takes You There" name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope. Writing after the 2020 election, at a time when many on the left implored... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

Placing personal memories in the context of baseball history and classic myths, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball" is a moving memoir–cum–philosophy text. Blending thoughts on America’s favorite pastime with classic mythology,... Read More

L. Annette Binder’s sensitive, grounded, and hopeful memoir "Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" is about the family impact of Alzheimer’s disease. Binder taps into a range of literary and scientific sources to reflect on her mother... Read More

Using humor as an educational tool, Duncan Watson’s charming memoir Everyone’s Trash reveals recycling secrets and stories about detritus. After earning a master’s degree in resource management in the early 1990s, Watson started a... Read More

In Renée D. Bondy’s historical novel about clerical sexual abuse, "[non]disclosure", a survivor finds the courage to tell her story. As a girl at a Catholic school, the unnamed narrator is taught that the reward for confession is no... Read More

In Let’s Get Festive! Joanna Konczak tells the stories of more than thirty holiday celebrations around the world. Packed with interesting trivia, the book is an engaging roundup of the myriad ways that people celebrate. The holidays... Read More

With elements of magical realism, Tathagata Bhattacharya’s rollicking satirical novel "General Firebrand and His Red Atlas" covers the machinations of political alliances and regimes. On the Indian subcontinent, the guerrillas of Sands... Read More