Defining marriage and adultery is tricky, and it was even trickier in the 1800s. In the heady but colorful "Unfaithful", Carol Faulkner gives the history of American marriage reformers. These rebels and thinkers, along with some... Read More

"Smart, Successful and Abused" is an important contribution to discussions of abusive relationships that shares resources for leaving and recovering. Shocking statistics and heartrending personal stories shatter common beliefs about... Read More

Lyz Lenz’s "God Land" is a nuanced examination of the political, personal, and religious complexity of middle America. Beginning with Lenz’s own faith-filled dream of a new church (one which ended up dissolving) and the challenge of... Read More

"Hummingbird in Underworld" is a treasure of a book in multiple ways. It flits back and forth over razor-wire fences, twining memories from life on the outside into Deborah Tobola’s account of her stretch as facilitator of a creative... Read More

Nicholas Buccola’s "The Fire Is upon Us" is a riveting, expansive companion text to a historic debate that swept the nation. On February 18th, 1965, two high-profile thinkers met to discuss a pressing question: “Is the American Dream... Read More

Clementine Ford’s "Boys Will Be Boys" is a straightforward, refreshing overview of toxic masculinity from a feminist lens. The term “toxic masculinity” is everywhere recently, and for good reason. As women’s realities become... Read More

White nationalists, mass shooters, conspiracy theorists: these scary labels seem to belong to the most extreme members of society. But as Daryl Johnson argues in "Hateland", hateful extremism resides in the mainstream consciousness like... Read More