Host of the Wild With Sarah Wilson podcast, award-winning Australian journalist Wilson sees the world in a state of collapse, exacerbated by inequality and polarization. Once a stalwart climate activist, she has become disillusioned by practices to reverse global warming, and she admits to feeling hopeless. Assuming that her feelings are shared by others, she …
Elsie Parker gets to spend eight weeks learning about important topics like the difference between sex and gender, but at school, her fifth grade classmates will get their puberty education only via a generic hourlong video in a gender-segregated class at the end of the school year. Elsie decides to fill the gap: She hangs …
In his well-crafted debut collection of linked essays, Trinidad, a Filipino Kiwi writer, considers family and identity; the richness of Filipino culture and the challenges of immigration; and gay awakening and queer adulthood. A graphic recounting of catching, gutting, defeathering, and butchering a chicken turns into a warm portrait of his feisty grandmother, a college …
This follow-up to Riot Act (2024) returns to 1991 and an alternate America that’s ruled by propaganda and fear. Axl is haunted by grief. It doesn’t help that Gigi, his dead friend and longtime crush, is also haunting him. After being murdered during a radical act of civil disobedience, Gigi lingers among the living—specifically inside …
Far too many Americans, writes Bostock, are stuck in “a toxic day-to-day grind that leaves them drained and purposeless.” Since the 1970s, corporate America, per the author, has embraced a ruthless approach to profit (epitomized by Milton Friedman’s signature essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits”) that has “led to a …
The author says that he’s long been fascinated by John Hughes’ 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. As an undergraduate at Columbia College Chicago, he visited various locations shown in the film. His eagerness to understand how it was made led him first to film school and, ultimately, to interviewing much of the cast (including …
When we last left Shackleton Jones, his dad, Amelia Miles, and her mom, they had vanquished a giant anaconda in their flooded park, only to be met with a flurry of “sky blobs” conjured up by a supervillain who recently moved into their neighborhood. Shackleton immediately breaks the fourth wall: “In the last book, Glam-Evil …
On each spread, four poetic lines of text detail the birds’ breeding season, the use of present tense conveying a you-are-there immediacy. Wright’s accurate, freely sketched watercolorlike artwork, dominated by subdued hues of blue-gray, depicts these birds from a variety of perspectives. Sidebars relate further information (size, wingspan, diet, nesting and courtship, and the growth …
In his Trilogy About the Boy, Stefánsson follows an unnamed teenage orphan—poetically gifted and deeply sensitive—through trauma and loss, toward a fragile sense of safety and belonging. In the earlier volumes, Heaven and Hell (2025) and The Sorrow of Angels (2025), the boy witnesses his best friend’s death in a fishing accident and nearly dies …
Aubrey Lewis has seen better days. The former actor used to star in a popular British television series, People Live, People Die, People Live As If They Were Already Dead, but now lives in a London sublet, still grieving the death of his wife from cancer and subsisting on his dwindling savings. He gets the …
