Book Review
Law and Order Leviathan
by Isaac Randel
In "Law and Order Leviathan", David Garland advocates for a holistic approach to understanding and fixing American penal policy. Garland begins his measured and stinging analysis of American penal policy with an overview of the police...
Book Review
Get It Out
by Isaac Randel
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...
Book Review
The Great White Hoax
by Isaac Randel
Philip Kadish’s "The Great White Hoax" is a fresh history of American racial discourse centered on the cynical ways in which fraudulent narratives and outright hoaxes have manipulated public perceptions of race. Told through a series...
Book Review
Jesusland
by Isaac Randel
Joelle Kidd’s cultural critique "Jesusland" surveys the charming and perilous cultural artifacts and attitudes that defined evangelical Christianity in the early twenty-first century. Kitschy aspects of Christian youth culture...
Book Review
How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist
by Isaac Randel
Framed as a resistance manual for critical thinking amid rising neofascism, Annette Wannamaker’s "How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist" calls for deeper levels of attention and engagement from readers of all ages. The book begins by...
Book Review
Arctic Passages
by Isaac Randel
"Arctic Passages" is Kieran Mulvaney’s comprehensive study of one of the world’s most mysterious and significant geopolitical flashpoints. Taking a nonlinear approach to the human history of the Arctic, the book dedicates as much...
Book Review
Georgia and Anita
by Isaac Randel
About eminent painter Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer, a trailblazer of the American suffragist movement, Liza Bennett’s rich biography "Georgia and Anita" covers a dynamic, tragic friendship. O’Keeffe and Pollitzer forged an...
Book Review
God's Word in Verse
by Isaac Randel
Dealing with universal themes of Christian devotion, including doubt, praise, and forgiveness, God’s Word in Verse is an affecting poetry collection. Callie Turner’s slim poetry collection God’s Word in Verse borrows the imagery of...