Book Excerpt: White Nights, Black Paradise
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s white founder, the Reverend Jim Jones. On that... Read More
Between the World and Me
BOOK BY TA-NEHISI COATES SPIEGEL & GRAU; 2015 176 PP.; $24.00 The Black Lives Matter movement confused me at first. I didn’t understand why so many black Americans were so angry. But then I remembered... Read More
White Nights, Black Paradise
BOOK BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON INFIDEL BOOKS, 2015 325 PP., $10.95 Sikivu Hutchinson heads Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is a social justice activist as well as the author of several nonfiction books on race, religion,... Read More
Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy
BOOK BY RICK HELLER NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 2015 288 PP.; $15.95 The very short review of Rick Heller’s Secular Meditation: If you’re curious about secular meditation and mindfulness, there’s finally a book for you. And... Read More
Book Excerpt: The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
BOOK BY SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 304 PP.;$28.00 (HARDCOVER), $13.99 (KINDLE) This past September the celebrated and controversial author Salman Rushdie published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—his first adult novel since Enchantress... Read More
Apostate! No More Bazoodee: A Grenadian Quest to Think Outside the Box
BOOK BY SEON M. LEWIS LULU PUBLISHING, 2015 196 PP.; $15.00 The Caribbean has a ripe history of humanism and skepticism. Great humanists like the writer and theorist C. L. R. James, anthropologist J. A.... Read More