The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit’s "No Straight Road Takes You There" name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope. Writing after the 2020 election, at a time when many on the left implored... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

Placing personal memories in the context of baseball history and classic myths, "The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball" is a moving memoir–cum–philosophy text. Blending thoughts on America’s favorite pastime with classic mythology,... Read More

L. Annette Binder’s sensitive, grounded, and hopeful memoir "Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" is about the family impact of Alzheimer’s disease. Binder taps into a range of literary and scientific sources to reflect on her mother... Read More