Leslie Short’s "Expand Beyond Your Current Culture" is a practical and authentic guide to implementing diversity and inclusion efforts at work. Short asserts that, for diversity and inclusion to work within companies, their leaders... Read More

In Paul Cavanagh’s novel "Weekend Pass", a patient takes leave from a drug treatment facility to try to repair the damage done to her family. Tasha’s story is gradually revealed via details about her relationships with her family... Read More

Portraying an unsuccessful artist’s glide into washout and reinvention after capitalism’s unequal demands erode their ability to create, Yxta Maya Murray’s novel "Art Is Everything" is a candid critique of society’s usurious... Read More

Candace Jane Opper’s memoir centers on a pivotal event: the suicide of a friend from her teenage years, who’s internally referred to as “Brett,” and whose real name she has tattooed between her shoulder blades. Brett shot himself... Read More

When a hit-and-run kills a South Carolina teenager who was bicycling after dark, the fallout leads a community to ruminate. Jon Sealy’s "The Merciful" is a searing novel in which public judgments and personal reckonings spiral from a... Read More

Unsparing but sympathetic, and with journalistic details, "At the Edge of the Haight" begins on an ominous note: a young runaway, Maddy, and her rambunctious dog, Root, happen upon a dying man in Golden Gate Park. A stranger threatens to... Read More

Jon Bentley of the popular British show Top Gear examines recent innovations in automotive technology and considers what they portend for the industry in Autopia: The Future of Cars. The book’s discussions of topics like driverless... Read More

Rodney is a twelve-year-old with a predilection for adult comics who’s stuck in Hope, a dead end Wyoming town. Nadine is a wary drifter on the run from life and failed relationships, shacked up in the backwoods of Washington state.... Read More