Travis Lupick’s "Light Up the Night" takes a compassionate look at the US’s drug overdose crisis and those working to address it. Two visionary reformers who themselves wrestled with drug addiction, Louise and Jess, are at the center... Read More

"How Reasonable Americans Could Support Trump" is a good starting point for anyone who wishes to have honest conversations with acquaintances across the political aisle. Brian Rees’s perspective-driven political science book "How... Read More

Photographer Nancy Richards Farese’s "Potential Space" depicts children’s play, untouched by technological and commercial bric-a-brac. Whether children are shown in single-minded focus or modeling their toys and games with pride, the... Read More

Journeys from Here to There is an enlightening social science text that asserts that welcoming immigrants is necessary to America’s progress and survival. Immigration attorney Susan J. Cohen’s humane social science book "Journeys... Read More

This digestible, compelling social science text reexamines the stories that people have been told by and about society’s winners. Former Stanford business lecturer David Lockwood parses a variety of survivor bias examples in his social... Read More

Richard Girling’s "The Longest Story" is a social science examination of the relationships between humans and animals—a topic that’s seldom considered, but is close at hand and environmentally relevant. To varying degrees, human... Read More

A comforting book for anyone navigating the effects of trauma, August McLaughlin and Jamila Dawson’s "With Pleasure" is an inspiring guide to feeling good in one’s body. McLaughlin and Dawson are a sexuality journalist and a sex... Read More

A hearty “bless your heart” to those who misunderstand the South, the essays of Margaret Renkl’s Graceland, at Last vivify an often maligned region. Renkl is one angle of the face of the changing South: she cares about the... Read More