SUBURBAN WARRIORS: The Origins of the New American Right
Lisa McGirr
Prototypical rather than typical, suburban Orange County, Calif., provides Harvard historian McGirr with an illuminating microcosm of the historical transformations that took conservative activism Continue reading »
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr
The Hollywood narrative of Prohibition as a time of gangsters spraying bullets from machine guns is blown wide open in McGirr’s ambitious history of the 14-year period in early 20th-century America Continue reading »
Boukaila’s boundary-pushing debut explores truth, reluctance, and an unrestrained mind. Boukaila, a nonspeaking autistic poet, celebrates neurodivergent modes of thinking that Continue reading »
Carter-Jones (Three Birds Deep) gathers the shards of devastation and reconstructs the soul in this trenchant and mellifluous collection. She studies the memory of her father’s Continue reading »
Auden’s National Book Award–winning 1956 collection is restored to print for the first time in decades in this essential reissue. Perceptively introduced by Jacobs (Breaking Continue reading »
These candid and skillful poems from Scanlon (Lonesome Gnosis) offer original observations about aging, motherhood, and life as a woman on an increasingly unstable planet. “How Continue reading »