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November 2025

November 2025 Books

Aflame: Learning from Silence

By Pico Iyer. Riverhead Books, 2025. 240 pages. $30/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Aflame: Learning from Silence centers upon author Pico Iyer’s more…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2025 Books

Yorùbá Boy Running: A Novel

By Biyi Bándélé. Harper, 2024. 288 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. “Àjàyí!” exclaimed my Nigerian friend Philip Omogbai, on seeing the photograph…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

November 2025 Books

WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging

By Lisa Lundeen. Plants and Poetry, 2023. 138 pages. $25/paperback. At first glance, WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging seems…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

November 2025 Books

In Brief: Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage

By Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda. Fortress Press, 2024. 374 pages. $35/paperback; $32.99/eBook. People who think our economy is very healthy will…

Reviewed by Tom Head

November 2025 Books

In Brief: The Amazing Carnival Barker

By Jonathan Talbot, illustrated by Signe Wilkinson. Self-published, 2025. 44 pages. $12.95/paperback. Two talented Quaker artists have teamed up to…

Reviewed by Gail Whiffen

Judith Ann Fink Mercer

Mercer—Judith Ann Fink Mercer, 83, on December 8, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. She was born June 8, 1941, to Winship… Staff

Donna Shepherd Moran

Moran—Donna Shepherd Moran, 84, on March 23, 2024, at Friends Homes at Guilford in Greensboro, N.C. Donna was born on… Staff

Marc Pilisuk

Pilisuk—Marc Pilisuk, 90, on August 20, 2024, in Berkeley, Calif. Marc was born on January 19, 1934, in the Bronx,… Staff

Doris Johnson Tyldesley

Tyldesley—Doris Johnson Tyldesley, 75, on December 29, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. Doris was born on November 9, 1949, to Sam… Staff
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, November 2025

Spiritual artistry of Lars Hertervig Staff

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