Erin Zimmerman’s resonant memoir "Unrooted" is candid in chronicling her scientific career centered around the splendors of botany. Zimmerman grew up in rural Canada and opted to study physics in college. But the purchase of an orchid... Read More
Interfaith chaplain Cedar Monroe’s "Trash" is a case study in the US’s rampant poverty problem. Discussing poverty with particular emphasis on poor white Americans, Monroe’s book is focused on the homeless and housing-insecure... Read More
Cultural critic David Masciotra’s newest book "Exurbia Now" is a timely appraisal of an American political landscape marked by dangerous isolation. Drawing on trends in demographics, city planning, and social life, Masciotra describes... Read More
A loyal group of translators find their allegiances tested when their author disappears in translator Jennifer Croft’s winking satirical novel "The Extinction of Irena Rey". The novel adopts a twisting conceit. It is the translated... Read More
"Voices of Reason" is an accessible, short introduction into the deeper world of political philosophy. Psychotherapist Bill Entzminger’s "Voices of Reason" is a primer on the rudiments of political thought that cuts through the tangle... Read More
In C. A. Castle’s engaging novel "The Manor House Governess", a queer tutor is enmeshed in the intrigues of the family that employs him. To survive bullying at school for his perceived effeminacy, Bron, who has been abandoned by the... Read More
"The Spirituality of Dreaming" repackages dreaming as a life-enhancing, revolutionary act resulting in access to fonts of sacred energy. Kelly Bulkeley declares that dreaming is the most democratic and accessible of all the spiritual... Read More
Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death sentence she avoided. In college, she and her roommate survived... Read More