Category: Reviews
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
The story of Elizabeth Packard, a woman who history has forgotten, but whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices.
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The Measure
A debut novel in which the world awakes to a box at the doorstep of every adult that contains a string that correlates to the length of your life.
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Newsroom Confidential
Margaret Sullivan discusses her life as a journalist and the struggle of the press to save itself and American democracy in this memoir and manifesto.
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I Will Find You
Five years ago, an innocent man began a life sentence for murdering his own son. Today he found out his son is still alive.
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Night Wherever We Go
A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.
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Black Women Will Save the World
In this celebration of Black women’s resilience and unheralded strength, White House correspondent April Ryan reflects on Black women’s unprecedent role in American history and upholding democracy.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
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American Mermaid
A funny debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood’s violations.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
A multi-layered work of investigative journalism that explores a savage double murder within one of America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.
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Dirty Work
A paradigm-shifting report of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society’s most ethically troubling jobs.
