This November, millions of Americans will vote in what is sure to be a historic election. To help you be more informed about the current U.S. voting base and campaign politics, we curated this book list that offers a fresh...

How to Depolarize Your Home, Workplace, and Community

A Listicle on The Way Out

Peter T. Coleman

Peter T. Coleman’s book The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization offers a comprehensive guide to addressing and mitigating the deep political and social divides that characterize contemporary society. Coleman, a conflict resolution expert, outlines several actionable steps based on...

August 27, 2024

Christina MacSweeney on The Company

If asked, I describe myself as a literary translator. But what exactly does the adjective “literary” mean? How is what I do different from what, for example, a legal translator does? The simplistic response is that legal translation has a...

August 21, 2024

Are You Avoiding the News These Days? You’re Not Alone.

How to Stay Informed Without Losing Your Sanity

Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

It is hardly news that many see reporting on current events as anxiety-inducing, soul-crushingly depressing, or worse. What is new are the growing numbers who now say they are actively avoiding it. Nearly four in ten people now say they...

August 20, 2024

Ilze Duarte on Marília Arnaud and The Book of Affects

Marilia Arnaud, author of O livro dos afetos (The Book of Affects), was born in Campina Grande, in the northeastern state of Paraíba, and lives in João Pessoa, the capital city. Arnaud first became known in Brazil as a short...

August 13, 2024

Language Haunted by Sex?

Armine Kotin Mortimer

Armine Kotin Mortimer, who translated Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death by Julia Kristeva, discussed what he considered when translating the book’s subtitle “Language Haunted by Sex.

August 9, 2024

Celebrate Book Lovers Day with Global Reads

Raina Mansfield

This Book Lovers Day, immerse yourself in the wonder of reading by exploring new titles. We’re excited to share some standout collections and collaborations that highlight literature’s diversity and richness. From powerful narratives by Roseway Publishing to the lyrical poetry...

August 8, 2024

Fiona Bell on The Talnikov Family

From Anna Karenina to The Brothers Karamazov, Russian literature of the nineteenth century is perhaps best known for the family novel. In 1848, as if anticipating the spate of profamily novels to come, Avdotya Panaeva penned a novel that was...

August 6, 2024

Kevin Hart on Contemplation

Contemplation has fallen out of sight in recent decades. For centuries, it was a large part of Christianity, especially Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but since Vatican II (1962–1965) it has not been emphasized. How many times have you heard a homily...

July 24, 2024

Why History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power

Chana Teeger

Erasure and denial of the past are not the only ways to suppress historical claims and reproduce privilege. Chana Teeger’s research in two racially diverse South African schools shows how the past can be recalled while its legacies are ignored.

July 17, 2024

Michiko Suzuki on Decentering the Western Humanitarian Movement:

Japanese Indigenous Humanitarianism (Jindō)

In this Q&A, Michiko Suzuki’s discusses Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire. The book is the first English written research monograph about the history of the Japanese Red Cross movement.