In the memoir "Confessions of a Hippie", hippie culture is seen through the eyes of a woman who was part of it. Adriana Bardolino’s memoir "Confessions of a Hippie" covers life on various communes. The book chronicles an eight-year... Read More

Nathanial Gronewold’s "Anthill Economics" challenges human beings to view the economy as an ecosystem. The economy, the book posits, is humanity’s fundamental ecology; despite the mathematical nature of economics, it’s truly a... Read More

Kateřina Tučková’s "Gerta" is a startling, significant historical novel set during and after the violent postwar expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. At the end of WWII, Gerta—the daughter of a disrespected Czech mother whom... Read More

The story of how the Jesuits began usually focuses on Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, but Jon Sweeney’s fascinating biography adds a third name: Peter Faber. Faber was born in 1506 and grew up in a French hamlet as the child of... Read More

"Where Madness Lies" is an utterly compelling historical novel about the Nazi genocide, told from the perspective of psychiatric patients who reveal the generational impact of mental illness. The two-part story begins in 1934 in Germany,... Read More

Discussing both problems with American health care and potential solutions, Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson’s "Medicare for All" acknowledges that “health insurance doesn’t make health care affordable, and it doesn’t protect you... Read More