Colin Woodard’s American Nations is making its way around my office, and just last week it landed on my desk. Tracing the evolution of eleven regional cultures in North America that have developed distinct identities throughout history, Woodard exposes why our country is so deeply segregated across regional boundaries. The unique history of each “nation” …
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The book I read was Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. The book describes Black and Latino boys’ experience with the criminal justice system and how it can limit the future of these boys. All the boys in the book are from Oakland and it is shocking how they are treated by …
Mysteries, police procedurals, and historical fiction are some of my guilty pleasures. The Informers (2009, originally published in Spanish in 2004) by the young Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez has elements of all three genres, plus it is beautifully written to boot. A Colombian journalist Gabriel Santoro writes a memoir of Jewish family friend Sara …
The Red Tree by Shaun Tan is a picture book– but don’t under estimate the world within! Tan is able to capture the attention of any reader by the ornate detailed illustrations. The phenomenal pictures in the book engulf you in a sea of emotions and the use of selective words fully illuminate the story. …