Don McCulloch reviews The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement by Eamon Dolan (Penguin Random House, 2025).

Kimberly Bain reviews Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick by Murray Carpenter (MIT Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks by Fred Haefele (Bison Books, 2025).

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Kimberly Bain reviews There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Penguin Random House, 2025)

Geoffrey Reiter reviews Jane Austen’s Darkness by Julia Yost (Wiseblood Books, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong (St. Martin’s Press, 2025)

Michael Jimenez reviews Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Belknap Press, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark (Bison Books, 2025)

Kimberly A. Bain reviews Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (First One Signal Publishers, 2025)

Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler  by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis et. al (Riverhead Books, 2025)

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

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)

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)

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