FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Shoot for the stars with Moon: An Illustrated History, a brief overview of the beloved celestial body told in one hundred vignettes, each accompanied by a full-page, full-color... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Get out your pen and paper and prepare to take notes on Erin Wildermuth’s short volume Womentality, a collection of stories from thirteen women who abandoned the traditional... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / A stirring call to learn from history we do not wish to repeat, George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy relays a story not easily forgotten, but too often ignored.... Read More

Give it up for Gavin Evans’s thorough and timely teardown of racial myths in Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race. Informed by a background in law and political studies, as well as involvement in anti-apartheid movements... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Stealing today’s spotlight is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard’s Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics. A Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Nüsslein-Volhard... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / A round of applause for There Is No Planet B, a foolproof guide to sustainability in an age of excess. Ever wondered about the carbon footprint of your lunch? Not sure what a... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / A standing ovation is the only reasonable response to Dov Waxman’s The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know, as well as heartfelt thanks for addressing... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / And the Lit Hit goes to Eric Gorges’s A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning, a delightful study of the theories, practices, demons, and angels... Read More