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This months recommendations will I hope encourage readers to reflect on the legacies of individuals and institutions.
Famed Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows up his epoch-defining study of eviction to address poverty more broadly.
For starters, everything you think you know about the topic is wrong.
But focusing on these statistics obfuscates what is in effect a moral argument.
Desmonds great contribution to the topic is asking why we as a society are willing to accept this.
But be forewarned: His admonishments arent just lobbied at elites.
The anthology cements Silverblatts legacy as a literary steward whos welcomingandrespectful of his listeners intelligence.
Victor LaValles voracious appetite for genre experimentation has taken him to the American West.
Also, who can she trust there?
(Her neighbor Grace?
This brilliant, long out-of-print novel was rescued by (who else?)
The sensuousness is the point.
