Airman Dylan Park-Pettiford’s powerful memoir "Roadside" chronicles his Iraq War deployment and hard times back home. Half Black, half Korean, Park-Pettiford often felt like an outsider in Oakland. He enlisted in the air force after... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

An art conservator, a scholar, and a portraitist embrace the mysteries of love and ancestry in Katherine Scott Crawford’s enchanting fantasy novel The Miniaturist’s Assistant. In 2004, Gamble works in a Charleston museum. Fascinated... Read More

De Kai’s urgent book "Raising AI" reflects the ethical impacts of the Artificial Intelligence industry and moral quandaries raised by its influence on public and private life. Drawing an analogy between artificial intelligences... Read More

In his rollicking essay collection "Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds", Charles Hood reckons with the ocean’s simultaneous allure and risk through stories of seabird-watching and of his father’s wartime service in the Pacific Theater.... Read More

Two friends deal with the loss of their former bandmate in Magnus Merklin’s moving graphic novel "DiSCONNECT". After forming their band in high school, three twenty-year-old friends look forward to the future. But one dies, and a year... Read More

Tamara Dean’s introspective memoir-in-essays "Shelter and Storm" is about sustainable living in a Wisconsin farming community. Pursuing a “new beginning,” Dean left the city and purchased a small farm in a southwest Wisconsin... Read More

A singular window into the horror of life in Nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt’s anthropological study addresses the dreams that she and her fellow German citizens began having after Adolf Hitler came to power. A haunting approach to the... Read More