In Get It Out, Andréa Becker investigates the consequences of cultural ignorance about one of the least-studied organs of the human body and the multilayered experiences of those who seek to remove it. Because of the uterus’s... Read More

The history of the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-government is at the center of Nicole F. Watts’s riveting book "Republic of Dreams". The modern countries of the Middle East were created when the Age of Empires came to an end... Read More

The fresh, informative essays collected in "Sex Work Today" concern challenges faced by those engaging in modern erotic labor. According to the authors in this collection, the stigma and stereotypes surrounding erotic labor often obscure... Read More

Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More

A startling examination of eight influential Supreme Court cases, "The Supreme Court Footnote" describes the increasing importance of footnotes in signaling the justices’ thinking and direction. This astute book covers Peter Charles... Read More

During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the country’s Jewish population was stuck in an impossible situation, unable to practice their religion and also forbidden to leave. Shaul Kelner’s "A Cold War Exodus" shows how a... Read More

The essays collected in "Good Eats" explore people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. Food is not just food, the book argues. To discuss food is to dig into the foundations of... Read More

Sociologist Casey Stockstill’s "False Starts" exposes how racial inequality in the US begins in preschool. Stockstill spent two years observing the daycare provided by two top-ranked preschools in Madison, Wisconsin: a public Head... Read More