The judicial system’s bias against minorities has deep roots, acknowledges Garrett Felber in Those Who Know Don’t Say, which argues that the penal, or carceral, state expanded due to “dialects of discipline.” It shows that police... Read More

A memoir about E. J. Koh’s formative years, "The Magical Language of Others" is structured around forty-nine letters, all that remain of a one-way correspondence from her mother over the seven years that they lived apart. Functioning... Read More

"Why Are We Here?" synthesizes interdisciplinary sciences to explain how terrestrial life developed and what might threaten it in the future. Bruce Brodie’s fascinating "Why Are We Here?" sweeps the origin, evolution, and future of... Read More

Johannes Anyuru’s stunning They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears is a rare, powerful multiverse novel that reflects the best and worst of human potential. Pushed from a bridge by a fascist, the young woman’s mother declares... Read More

The career of Rod Serling—the screenwriter, playwright, and television producer best known for creating The Twilight Zone—is traced in Koren Shadmi’s graphic novel "The Twilight Man". The young Serling, after proving his mettle as... Read More

Jedediah Purdy’s reflective essay collection "This Land Is Our Land" highlights the struggle Americans face when it comes to caring for the land and the environment. Purdy observes that “Land is perennially the thing we share that... Read More

This clever fold-out title begins with a girl on Earth whose body may be bound by gravity, but whose imagination is not. Her eyes starry, she looks up, up, up to the sky, her sight passing children in the apartments above her,... Read More

John P. Clark’s "Between Earth and Empire" is an expansive work that considers the broad and chilling consequences of ecological disaster. The Earth is in such dire straits that Clark labels the present “the Necrocene,” or “the... Read More