Books

Gone for over half a century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lives on through his thought and his prose. A new edition from Restless Books offers an excellent opportunity to broaden our perspective on questions of race in America by increasing our understanding of racism's history and sociology, enlightened by one of the country's most creative minds.

'Stand Up And Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice' by Susanna Reich is a picture book intended for children in grades 3 through 7. But, like the music and message of Pete Seeger himself, it is really a book for everyone

'Breakup/Breakdown', a collection of poetry by Charles Jensen. Can one find hope in poems of heartbreak and loss?

Interview with Tom Carter author of 'Nashville: Music and Murder': "Find your creative versus commercial groove, and ignore assessments like mine or anyone else's."

Dava Sobel aims to shatter misconceptions and celebrate the amazing women of the Harvard Observatory in her latest book, 'The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars'.

Interview with Isabel Roxas, a talented children's book illustrator in the Philippines and the U.S., highlights her love of animals and art.

Let's get rid of any drama first - there will be no Batman vs. Superman (because it sucked).

A personal view of the twentieth century's most infamous dictator.

Lavinia Greenlaw’s far-ranging introduction 'Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland', reads sometimes like the flight of a bumblebee. Fascinatingly brilliant in each place that it lands, it succeeds in making the reader long to know more of William Morris.

Railroad cars brought the author's father and mother to Auschwitz, but railroad cars also brought them from Auschwitz, eventually to the town where they would try to start fresh and raise a family. His book is a loving, questioning, aching letter from a onetime little boy to the father the Nazis took from him.