Book Review

“March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights.

Reclus believed that solutions to ecological crises must involve restoring balance, equality, and a sense of interrelationship between humans and other humans, and between humans and the biosphere.

Masha Gessen's “Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot” tells the essential backstory to the Pussy Riot phenomenon in a way that "rescues these women from this …

An empire of the magnitude of the United States does not exist without a secret police.

Nature photographer and photojournalist Peter Essick has produced a beautiful, horrifying mirror of our Earth in his new book, “Our Beautiful, Fragile World.”

The 16 oral histories in Corinne Goria's excellent anthology, ‘Invisible Hands’, elucidates the realities behind the scenes of the so-called global economy.

The stunning directness and immediacy of the opening line of Sigrid Unset's first novel, “Marta Oulie,” are sustained throughout its pages.

Reza Aslan's “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” looks at issues of class and colonialism, oppression and rebellion, in first century Judea in a way that …

Ellen Cohen's “Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife” is an insightful description of the conditions and clashes endemic to American health care.

Chris Crass's coming-of-age memoir for the modern activist, “Towards Collective Liberation,” provides a road map for personal and societal evolution.