Book Review
Revolutions Are Made of Love
Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal’s innovative dual biography Revolutions Are Made of Love, combines paired poems with beautiful illustrations. Activists James and Grace Lee Boggs built a lasting social justice and civil rights movement...
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Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children
"Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children" collects six classic bedtime stories alongside charming illustrations. Wilde’s children’s stories were first published in a collection in 1888. Elements of them are dark. In the standout “The...
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Furious Minds
Laura K. Field’s political science survey "Furious Minds" is about the intellectual underpinnings of authoritarianism in the US. Describing in detail the different strains of elitist far-right politics that came together in the past...
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Dinosaurus
Rhys Charles’s "Dinosaurus" is an up-to-date and informative reference book that’s packed with quality science, useful illustrations, and interesting trivia. The book’s first and largest section is a dictionary of dinosaurs, with...
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Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them
In Susannah Fullerton’s creative biographical collection, seventeen cats are vehicles for stories of the authors who cared for them. “Since cats were first domesticated and since human beings first began to write,” the book notes,...
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Riverine Dreams
In his excellent travel memoir "Riverine Dreams", George Frazier visits eight grassland rivers “where fifty million people go about their lives in the ruins of North America’s once vast interior grassland.” Before European...
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Banished Citizens
In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through...
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How to Save the Amazon
In 2022, journalist Dom Phillips was murdered while reporting on environmental crimes in Brazil’s Javari Valley, killed by some of the same criminals destroying the Amazon rainforest. His friends and colleagues completed his...
