There was an era when dinner was served at the same time every day, on a table with a cloth and almost formally set. Everyone was expected to be there – on time, every day. Catherine Ring Saliba’s book, Ya Gotta Eat!, is a testament...

Maria Fajardo de T.'s memoir, Hakuna Shida: Memories of a Guatemalan Family in Africa, traces how her family came to live in Africa. She recounts the 2007 move to Kenya after her husband accepted work with an international agricultural firm. The family settles in Thika...

The Doors Between Our Selves is a poetic memoir by Sanda Berar. Growing up in Romania, she experienced a warm, familial childhood. Thanks to the author’s brave spirit, she's had a transient life, moving from Romania to Finland and finally to Seattle, Washington. But throughout...

David B. Oppenheimer’s The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea offers an intellectual history of how diversity came to be understood as a foundational value across education, law, science, and public life. Drawing on legal history, philosophy, and social science, Oppenheimer traces the...

Where You Are Really From by Dr. Rolade Berthier leans into how a seemingly simple question about where someone is “really” from is problematic in many ways. Berthier talks about how that question has followed her through routine life in places like Thionville, on public...

Bridge Between Two Worlds: From Sarajevo to London by Dr. Serge Mac, or Srđan Macanović, is the memoir of his childhood in Sarajevo into adulthood, shaped by war and displacement. He grew up in Grbavica in a family anchored by routine and familiarity. Later, as...

The Battle for America’s Soul by Darren Grant Nauert is a sweeping, impassioned examination of American identity through the lenses of faith, politics, and culture. Framed as both a warning and a call to awareness, the book traces what the author describes as a long...

Psychic Archaeology in New York is an argument for re-examining the stone chambers found across the Hudson Valley and the northeastern United States. Author Meghan Hansen tells us that these structures show a remarkably intentional design, examining their construction methods, landscape placement, acoustic behavior, and...

The memoir opens with Jim Jensen in a dangerous hitchhiking incident; if he’d said or done one wrong thing, he could have been killed. This hitchhiking mishap sets the reader up for the type of adventures he has on his six-year adventure around the world....

Seang/Hungering is an ode to Irish people and their struggles. In this illuminating collection of poems, Anne Casey depicts the trials and tribulations of Irish famine immigrants in Ireland and Australia. "Scarcity Commission" is a poignant poem that illustrates the devastating impact of the Great...