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John Kaag
American Philosophy
A Love Story
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network September 20, 2018 Lilian Calles Barger

John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) won the John Dewey Prize from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Kaag offers a rich history, philosophical inquiry and a memoir of an existential crisis that... Read More

Rebecca Roanhorse, “Trail of Lightning” (Saga Press, 2018)

Rebecca Roanhorse
Trail of Lightning
The Sixth World
Saga Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Science Fiction New Books Network September 20, 2018 Rob Wolf

In Trail of Lightning (Saga Press, 2018), the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Rebecca Roanhorse draws on Navajo culture and history to tell a gripping future-fable about gods and monsters. The book launches The Sixth World, a planned four-part series set in the near future. The series title refers to... Read More

Mira T. Lee
Everything Here is Beautiful

Pamela Dorman Books, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network September 14, 2018 GP Gottlieb

In her first novel, Everything Here is Beautiful (Pamela Dorman Books, 2018), author Mira T. Lee delves into the sometimes troubled but always compelling life of Lucia from the perspectives of her older sister Miranda, her husband, Yonah, and the father of her child, Manny. Miranda, who has taken care of... Read More

Margot Singer
Underground Fugue

Melville House, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network September 6, 2018 GP Gottlieb

Listening to NPR one day in the summer of 2005, author Margot Singer heard a report about a mute pianist who had washed up on the northern coast of England. That was also the summer of the London rush hour bombings that paralyzed the city and killed and maimed hundreds. Those... Read More

Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)

Stephanie Elizondo Griest
All the Agents and Saints
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
University of North Caroina Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network September 6, 2018 David-James Gonzales

In the United States, contemporary discourse concerning “the border” almost always centers around the country’s southern boundary shared with Mexico. Rarely, in conversations public or private among Americans is there any discussion of the nation’s northern border with Canada. Whatever the reason (ignorance, indifference, or both) all this changes with... Read More