Elizabeth D. Hilborn’s "Restoring Eden" covers the devastation caused by agricultural pesticides alongside an impassioned plea for ecological reform. Two decades ago, Hilborn and her husband moved to a North Carolina fruit farm,... Read More

David E. Linton’s informative and insightful text covers the origins and complications of US student debt. Starting with a history of higher education in the US, this book utilizes careful evidence to illustrate how and why student... Read More

Jennifer L. Wright’s exciting novel "The Girl from the Papers" is filled with robberies, revenge, and redemption. Beatrice used to be a star, but she now lives in poverty. She fled from her abusive stepfather and is desperate for fame... Read More

An artist and inspector are on a mission to recover a stolen painting in Rebecca Anderson’s Victorian romance novel "The Art of Love and Lies". Rosanna is a masterful forger—though she prefers calling her paintings reproductions.... Read More

The symbolism of the Soviet space program is examined in Cathleen S. Lewis’s cultural history "Cosmonaut". On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter space. Though brief, Gagarin’s venture outside of... Read More

In Rosemary Hennessy’s immersive book, seven singular authors are analyzed in terms of their unconventional lives and literary works. Drawing social crisis parallels between the 2020s and the Great Depression, this book unearths the... Read More

Weaponized nostalgia endangers the world and forces a reckoning between old friends in Sin Blaché and Helen MacDonald’s novel "Prophet". An American-style diner, a bouquet of flowers, and a board game are among the objects that... Read More

"Forever Finite" is a thorough philosophical exercise that muses through concepts of finitude and infinity. Kip K. Sewell’s exhaustive philosophical text "Forever Finite" explores concepts of infinity with a critical eye. Tackling the... Read More