Elizabeth Stice reviews Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026)

Jeffrey Bilbro shares about a book he loves which is out of print, the first edition of Wendell Berry’s A Place on Earth.

Christian McNamara reviews If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (Little, Brown and Company, 2025)

From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980)

Michael Jimenez reviews Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God by Jeffrey Edward Green (Oxford, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon (Hurst & Co., 2025)

A word from Sarah Linville, our Book Club Editor, and the information you need for the Wuthering Heights book club.

Brody Eldridge reviews Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon Books, 2025)

It’s Christmas day and you haven’t missed it! Enjoy an excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Matthew Sparacio reviews Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)

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Sarah Linville reviews Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, 2025).

Roger Chapman reviews State of War: A History of World War II in Florida by Anthony D. Atwood (University Press of Florida, 2025)

Zoë Kaufmann reviews Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside (New Directions, 2025)

Three classic Thanksgiving poems to help you celebrate the day.

Elizabeth Stice reviews House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by John T. Edge (Crown Publishing, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, 2025)

On December 16, we’ll have our next book club. This time we’ll be talking about the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. We’ll be meeting 8-9:30pm EST on Zoom. This book club is brought to you by our new Book Club Editor, Sarah Linville!

Michael Jimenez reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).