The convoluted web of food system sustainability, land management, and ecological misfires populates the pages of Nicole Negowetti’s "Feeding the Future". The apparatus of food production is herein magnified through dense,... Read More

A man is tasked with finding a missing painting in Naomi Hirahara’s historical novel "Crown City". While adrift in grief, Ryui is offered a job in California by his father’s former client. After a harrowing voyage from Japan, he... Read More

Hearkening back to classics in style, "Reunions" is a weighty literary novel about revealing encounters with old friends. In David Adams Cleveland’s verbose literary novel "Reunions", former classmates see a familiar face at their... Read More

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

Finding comfort, meaning, and timeless human connection in Britain’s ancient megaliths, Fiona Robertson’s luminous memoir "Stone Lands" explores the inner reaches of grief and how, even when confronting the inevitability of loss and... Read More

Carry Somer’s fascinating book "The Nature of Fashion" is about how humans have used plants to make textiles across time. About the profound impact of textiles on the planet and on human society, the book begins by considering the... Read More

In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through... Read More

Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s environmental history "The Wake of HMS Challenger" explores the state of the oceans through the lens of a groundbreaking Victorian voyage. In 1872, the British government funded a marine research expedition... Read More