Marlene Daut’s 2023 Meridian Award-winning intellectual history recovers the literary and political writing of Haitian revolutionaries, demonstrating that Haitians were active thinkers and writers who shaped their own history. A landmark work of archival scholarship that transforms how we understand the Age of Revolution.
Some books arrive at precisely the right cultural moment. Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations by Sam Horn landed in June 2023 into a world that had spent several years sharpening its capacity for division and dulling its capacity for dialogue. Horn, a communication strategist with decades of keynote and coaching experience, offers…
Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2022, is a book that earns its unusual subtitle on every page. It is a memoir structured around the conventions and tropes of fiction writing, a work that uses the craft talk of the creative writing…
Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s 2023 Meridian Award-winning guide reframes stress as a resource rather than a problem, offering an evidence-based five-pillar resilience framework grounded in psychology and neuroscience. Practical, warm, and far more rigorous than most wellness books.
Ramona Emerson’s debut novel Shutter, published by Soho Crime in 2022, announces a writer of uncommon gifts. Its protagonist, Rita Todacheene, is a Navajo forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque Police Department, and she carries a burden that goes beyond crime scenes and evidence logs: she sees the ghosts of murder victims. They find her…
YA fantasy in 2023 found itself at an interesting crossroads. The genre had spent several years leaning heavily toward indie publishing and self-published serial fiction, formats that rewarded fast pacing and familiar tropes over the kind of sustained world-building that once defined the field’s best work. Into that environment, Casters and Crowns by Kiana Krystle…
Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song arrives like a storm that has been gathering for years. Published in 2023 by Oneworld Publications and winner of the Booker Prize, it is a novel that does not ask for your comfort. It takes you by the collar from its opening pages and carries you through a nightmare that feels,…
Summary Fifty years after the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth shook the world with its computer models of civilizational collapse, the same organization commissioned a successor. Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity, published by New Society Publishers in 2022 and winner of the Meridian Award, is that successor. Written by Sandrine…
Mae Bunseng Taing’s 2023 Meridian Award-winning memoir recounts his family’s survival under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. A first-person survivor testimony of rare honesty and moral clarity, written in plainspoken English that trusts the facts to speak for themselves.
Sara Prot and Douglas A. Gentile synthesize decades of media psychology research to give parents, educators, and clinicians an honest, evidence-based account of how digital technology shapes children and adolescents. A 2023 Meridian Award winner. Rated 5.0.
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