Elizabeth Stice reviews The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller (Prometheus Books, 2025)

Grace Mackey reviews Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (Knopf, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Sarah Linville reviews Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Tin House, 2024)

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).