As Indian democracy comes under increasing threat from Hindu nationalists, the Dalit politician B.R. Ambedkar’s fight against caste inequality acquires a new significance. Source link

👯 Here are the best book club books coming out in June. 🏳️‍⚧️ Looking for some books to help you (or someone you love) better […]

Mermin, who “ran off to join the circus” in 1969 and founded his own circus, chronicles life under the big top. The author recounts having […]

How You Get the Girl How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly is $3.99! This is book three in the Nashville Love series and it was released […]

Last year, on holiday in Cornwall, I found a copy of A Private View of Stanley Spencer in a secondhand bookshop. I was only a […]

Some of the most valuable friendships I’ve ever had are with those a few decades older than me. I appreciate listening to their insights on […]

A compelling if occasionally sedate thriller. In this installment of Lee’s Dr. Mark Lin Medical Thrillers series, the intrepid physician vies with a mysterious computer […]

[music] Sarah Wendell: Hello there and welcome to episode number 616 of Smart Podcast, Trashy Books. I’m Sarah Wendell. With me today is Shana, one […]

Clair Wills has long been among the most supple and illuminating explorers of the intertwined cultural histories of Ireland and Britain. She works in the […]

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson I’ve said this before, but I truly believe that poets write […]

by Tish Rabe ; illustrated by Laura Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2016 While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee […]

Within the first paragraph of reading this I knew I wanted to review it. When the writing itself is just so good, you have to […]

In our May 23 issue, Joanna Biggs reviews Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel (whose previous biography, Ninth Street Women, took as its subject […]

$2.99 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters Get This Deal $1.99 A Place For Vanishing by Ann Fraistat Get This Deal $2.99 A Clash […]

A strong collection, better when blunter. A gutsy, grungy collection centering troubled souls. More than a collection of stories, Tobias’ debut is a selection of […]

This Rec League is from Christy! I’ve been in a reading slump of several “enemies to lovers” and I have DNF’ed the past 4 books […]

Like most of my colleagues in the international human rights movement, I use the term “genocide” sparingly. During my fifteen-year tenure at Human Rights Watch […]

When it comes to strong opinions, readers hold some of the strongest. A book that one reader might declare their favorite book in the entire […]