Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
By Shelby Steele
A diagnosis of our nation's fissures that misses the mark.
Risk: A Novel
By C.K. Stead
In this quiet, tightly woven tale, a middle-aged Kiwi gambles that he’ll be able to make a new life in post-9/11 London.
The Harder They Come: A Novel
By T.C. Boyle
Right-wing separatists, mental illness, and murder share center stage in this taut, dark tale.
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
By Stephen Church
Though fact-filled, this biography sheds little new light on a complex monarch.









