This book addresses all white people working to achieve racial equality. It can be used by individuals, small study groups, and in secondary and college classrooms.

Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies.

A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life.
Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up.

Escape Route is set in New York City during the tumultuous late 1960s. Told by teenager Zach, a first-generation son of Holocaust survivors and NY Mets fan, who becomes obsessed with the Vietnam War and with finding an escape route for his family for when he believes the US will round up and incarcerate its Jews.

Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone.

As James Joyce reframed The Odyssey, James Hannaham has reframed Ulysses. Instead of Leopold Bloom traipsing around Dublin, we have Carlotta Mercedes, a Black trans woman being dashed across Brooklyn. Carlotta claimed her identity near the start of her twenty year sentence in a male prison. Now she's "released" and we experience her odyssey with all her alarm, pathos, outrage, and razor sharp wit.

From an author of the best-selling women's health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides. A white woman's necessary learning, and a Black woman's complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a "tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read." (Debby Irving, author, Waking Up White.)

* Born deaf and on the spectrum, it's a challenge not to be eccentric.
* Knowing her parents didn't want her, it's a struggle not to surrender to sadness.
* Alive and full of fight, it's impossible not to be ferocious.

The setting is Philadelphia at the close of Prohibition. The language is playful and poetic. The storytelling is just as boldly experimental.

Leyb is haunted by the massacre of his home village where no Jew survived, aside from himself and Gittl. He's is entranced to meet a Black man who speaks Yiddish. Then a poem brings Gittl to Philadelphia where she inhabits the bodies of all the victims - and tries to give them due lament.

Trauma cannot be escaped. But the same is true of responsibility and hope which we bear before all the world.

July's mom is out of it, but July struggles to do well in school and protect her baby brother. She thinks she's doing ok until a neighbor discovers just how out of control her situation has become. Then everything gets really REALLY strange...

Creative ne're-do-well Flip Montcalm isn't cut out for office life, so he jumps at the chance to join an MFA program in the rural Midwest.

A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs.