

Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...
Feb 4, 2021


Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...
Jan 26, 2021


Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...
Jan 22, 2021


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...
Jan 18, 2021


Review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle
I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...
Jan 12, 2021


Review of Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
Here For It is refreshing and playful yet thoughtful. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. In Here for It: Or, How...
Jan 5, 2021


Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
Crawford's memoir lays bare systemic lies, gross injustices, horrifying abuses of privilege and power, and longstanding patterns of...
Dec 30, 2020


Review of The Empress by Laura Martinez-Belli
In the story of tragic Carlota, each turn of events was more ill-fated and darker than the next, all barreling toward ruin and...
Dec 28, 2020


Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and...
Dec 15, 2020


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
01 Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Crawford thought the trauma of her assault at St. Paul's boarding school decades...
Dec 14, 2020


Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...
Dec 9, 2020


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in...
Dec 2, 2020


Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
Deadly Waters was not the book I thought it was going to be. It's a revenge fantasy, but the issues at the heart of the story are weighty.
Sep 28, 2020


Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."
Jul 7, 2020


Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."
Jun 27, 2020


Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear arguments and a compelling story of her own.
May 24, 2020


Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.
May 14, 2020


Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.
May 10, 2020


Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.
Apr 23, 2020


Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The most fascinating parts for me were the late-in-life reflections from those who had been involved in the IRA's brutal and unrelenting...
Feb 16, 2020
