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Sarah Selden reviews Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Sceptre, 2024)

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Elizabeth Stice reviews On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories From Florida’s Space Coast by Dan Reiter (University Press of Florida, 2025)

Grace Mackey reviews The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood (Harmony, 2024)

Brody Eldridge reviews The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Peter Doggers (Puzzlewright Press, 2024)

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Elizabeth Stice reviews The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray (Belknap Press, 2024)

Sarah Selden reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025)

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Elizabeth Stice reviews On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves (Hachette, 2025)

Matthew Sparacio reviews The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American Memory by Michael D. Hattem (Yale University Press, 2024)

Michael Jimenez reviews Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Sarah Selden reviews The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game They Play Today by John Feinstein (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)

Stephanie Bennett reviews Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope by Jeffrey Bilbro (Baylor University Press, 2024)