Julian Randall’s lyrical memoir uncovers the past to light a brighter future
“Mississippi is all arrivals. Mississippi is all beginnings. But Mississippi is also something we return to, again and again, to find where we started in hopes of catching a glimpse…
50 Books / HT50, Part 8: 2010-2012
…for fiction. This installment of the 50 Books / HT50 series is entirely devoted to novels and features two deftly comic tales, a searing depiction of Stalin’s gulag, a finely…
50 Books / HT50, Part 7: 2006-2010
The years from 2006 to 2010 brought us, among other things, the Large Hadron Collider, Bitcoin, and Instagram. They also brought a shocking financial crisis and the global Great Recession…
A comic-style book for young readers offers a delightful tour of the science behind animal immune systems
Children’s author Heather L. Montgomery was inspired to write the comic book-style middle-grade nonfiction Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as she wondered how animals…
50 Books / HT50, Part 6: 2000-2005
The books in this installment of the 50 Books / HT50 series are a varied lot — two novels, one nonfiction book, and two poetry collections, including a Pulitzer Prize…
