Simon & Schuster, 2020. $28.00, 352 pages. Available here.   HE’S UP THERE, of course, but he often resides in the shadows, tucked in a granite niche between Jefferson, a man Continue reading →

Metropolitan Books, 2020. $29.99, 272 pages.  Artist and journalist Joe Sacco travels to the Northwest Territories and investigates a human conundrum in the Dene community: what are they willing to sacrifice Continue reading →

Other Press, 2020. $17.99, 432 pages.   FIRST PUBLISHED in France in 2018, the year of the gilets jaunes protests, Mathieu’s Prix Goncourt–winning novel captures the restless energy of dejected teenage Continue reading →

Red Hen/Boreal Books, 2019 $19.95, 155 pages.   “CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, Continue reading →

W. Norton & Company, 2019. $27.95, 416 pages.   “WHAT IS THE NATURE of history when nature is a part of what makes history?” To answer this question, environmental historian Bathsheba Continue reading →