The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow
Timothy Mitchell
Political theorist Mitchell (Carbon Democracy) offers a paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy. Today is “an age in which extraordinary wealth Continue reading »
The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
David J Silverman
The “centuries-long White... genocide against Indians” was central to the creation of racial identity in America, according to this trenchant study. Historian Silverman (This Continue reading »
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
Biophysicist Osmundson (Virology) blends memoir and science writing in this moving meditation on queer family, the climate crisis, and 21st-century child-rearing. Balancing the Continue reading »
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
Gregory E O'Malley
Historian O’Malley (Final Passages) offers a spellbinding saga of one man’s long and wandering search for freedom in Revolutionary-era America. David George left behind one of Continue reading »