"Community Capital" is a knowledgeable text that focuses on institutional financial challenges within marginalized communities. Clifford N. Rosenthal and Michael McCray’s "Community Capital" is a microhistory of race relations viewed... Read More

Rebecca Roque’s "Till Human Voices Wake Us" is an engrossing thriller about a girl looking for her friend’s murderer. When Silencia’s friend Alice drowned, everyone believed it was suicide. There was a note, and Alice was reeling... Read More

"City of the Dreadful Night" delivers a Gothic explanation to the unsolved mystery of Jack the Ripper. A killer stalks London’s slums in Euan MacPherson’s novel "City of the Dreadful Night", a horror mashup with roots in real-life... Read More

Reissued in light of the contemporary relevance of its topics, Journalist I. F. Stone’s political exposé of the Korean War calls years’ worth of dubious claims, made by the highest authorities, into question. Often called the... Read More

In Kate Marchant’s novel "Whistleblower", a young journalist chases a story about a revered football coach’s misconduct. Laurel is a junior at Garland, a southern California college, who believes herself to be forgettable. The Daily,... Read More

Daniel Pauly may be the most prominent ocean advocate you’ve never heard of. His unusual life and impressive achievements regarding planetary-scale marine topics are recounted by his colleague David Grémillet in The Ocean’s... Read More

Pandemic parenting. Zoom meetings. Virtual school. If you’ve coped with looking at devices all year, Katy Bowman’s "Grow Wild" will strike you as a gentle, cautionary guide about kids’ “super-sedentary” environments, and how... Read More

In Paraic O’Donnell’s chilling mystery novel, "The House on Vesper Sands", a young student and a sharp-witted detective are swept up by a sinister threat to the working class. Naïve, overeducated divinity student Gideon Bliss rushes... Read More