"Corn Dance" is Potawatomi chef, television host, and Corn Dance Café founder Loretta Barrett Oden’s inviting cookbook; it explores Indigenous ingredients and foodways. After raising a family in Oklahoma, Oden traveled to research... Read More

"Lies about Black People" is an antiracist, activist text that dissects harmful racist myths. With a penetrating blend of history, anecdotes, interviews, and poetry, Omekongo Dibinga analyzes some common stereotypes about Black people,... Read More

"Into the Bright Sunshine" is an incisive biography of Hubert Humphrey, the rural Midwesterner who grew into a prominent, persuasive politician in the vanguard of civil rights. Humphrey’s Great Depression-era childhood in South Dakota... Read More

"In Spite of the Consequences" is Lacino Hamilton’s blistering indictment of the outsized American prison system. An unjust conviction sent Hamilton to prison for twenty-six years before he was exonerated. Selections from thousands 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

In "Art Works", Ken Grossinger analyzes exciting new collaborations to enact social change. With scores of detailed examples and insights from community organizers and artists, this book covers strategies for using art to reach broad... Read More

Intimate, vibrant, exuberant, and with elements of a travelogue, Chawadee Nualkhair’s cookbook "Real Thai Cooking" introduces regional specialties with flair. Surveying four Thai regions and their unique cooking styles, flavors, and... Read More

The creative, bracing essays of Rebecca May Johnson’s "Small Fires" redefine the act of cooking and elevate the value of domestic labor. They critique what it means to interpret recipes; with a combination of intellectual rigor and... Read More