Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Here Are October’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

Featuring a History of Pop Music, a Chronicle of Black Filmmaking, a Counterhistory of Feminism, and More

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

A new study shows that UK school libraries are still very, very white.

By Walker Caplan | October 25, 2021

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait

Mona Kareem on the Heaviness of Absence and Those We Leave Behind

By Mona Kareem | October 25, 2021

Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

Ursula K. Le Guin always wanted Powell’s Books to be a proud union shop.

By Jonny Diamond | October 22, 2021

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill on Writing Rural America

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 21, 2021

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

How Nostalgia Can Hide Dark Political Realities

Andrew Potter Investigates the Nature of Societal Decline

By Andrew Potter | October 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

Rethinking Preschool in a Pandemic Teacher Shortage

By Dayneé Alejandra Rosales | October 21, 2021

Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive Today

By Just the Right Book | October 21, 2021

Politicians Love Punishment—But Does It Actually Reduce Crime?

Politicians Love Punishment—But Does It Actually Reduce Crime?

 Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine Examine the Specific Deterrent Effects of Incarceration

By Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine | October 21, 2021

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Chris Hedges on Teaching Playwriting in Prison

Writing Exercises, Sincerity, and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman

By Chris Hedges | October 21, 2021

WATCH: Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Chanel Craft Tanner on a New Intersectional Resource for Young Feminists

WATCH: Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, and Chanel Craft Tanner on a New Intersectional Resource for Young Feminists

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 21, 2021

Derecka Purnell on Abolition and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell on Abolition and the Pursuit of Freedom

In Conversation with Alex Vitale on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | October 21, 2021

How the TV Adaptation of Alex Haley’s <em>Roots</em> Sparked a Cultural Awakening

How the TV Adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots Sparked a Cultural Awakening

Wil Haygood on the History of Black Life on Screen

By Wil Haygood | October 20, 2021

On Mismatched Emotions in a South Dakota Pandemic Classroom

On Mismatched Emotions in a South Dakota Pandemic Classroom

Christy Tidwell on Staying Safe While Teaching

By Christy Tidwell | October 20, 2021

Call and Response: On the Inextricable History of Music and Black Struggle

Call and Response: On the Inextricable History of Music and Black Struggle

“The lineage of protest music has continued into the age of Black Lives Matter.”

By Veronica Chambers and Jennifer Harlan | October 20, 2021

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