BY BILL SIZEMORE BRANDYLANE PUBLISHERS, 2018 158 PP.; $18.95 Bill Sizemore has written a little gem of a book. In Uncle George & Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of 
Slavery he explores... Read More

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL J. UHLMAN, BRIAN WASIAK & JON C. SCHEIDE ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT RATH SHINEBOX PRESS, 2018 The release of Altered Boys Vol. 1: The Book of Billy coincides with the recent Pennsylvania grand... Read More

BY STEPHEN GREENBLATT W. NORTAON & COMPANY, 2018 224 PP.; $21.95 Stephen Greenblatt’s latest, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, is about the tyrannical characters in William Shakespeare’s plays. If you think it’s a coincidence Greenblatt wrote... Read More

Those looking for hope (or even energizing desperation) about our prospects for dealing with global warming will want to avoid William T. Vollmann’s new two-part Carbon Ideologies series: No Immediate Danger: Volume One (624 pages;... Read More

BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 624 PP.; $35.00 “Leonardo was a genius,” Walter Isaacson says near the end of Leonardo da Vinci. “Yet it is also true that he was a mere mortal.”... Read More

BY MALCOLM HARRIS LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2017 272 PP.; $16.50 (HARDCOVER) $13.99 (KINDLE) Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris is an unusual work of social criticism. Most... Read More

BY ANDREW COPSON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017 176 PP.; $18.95 In the not so distant past, say the 1960s or ’70s, a secular society seemed to be the obvious goal of all but the most... Read More