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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By Zoë Schlanger. Harper, 2024. 304 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The debate in the scientific community over the question of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By William J. Barber II. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024. 288 pages. $22.99/hardcover; $22.09/eBook. The issue of white poverty is a…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

By Ashley Dawson. Haymarket Books, 2024. 336 pages. $55/hardcover; $22.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. With the climate emergency drawing together all the threads…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

By Brian D. McLaren. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2024. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. This book starts out with doom. As was…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises

By Marjorie Kelly. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023. 256 pages. $22.95/paperback or eBook. Anyone who feels the weight of White supremacy—or sees…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Restorative Justice: Insights and Stories from My Journey

By Howard Zehr. Walnut Street Books, 2023. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $8.99/eBook. This collection of essays, reflections, and photos by Howard…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Rhetoric in Debt

By Kellie Sharp-Hoskins. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 204 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. Rhetoric in Debt opens with a morality…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

By Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Atria Books, 2023. 240 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Conversations about identity are hard. We may…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity

By Sandrine Dixson-Declève, et al. New Society Publishers, 2022. 176 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. Close your eyes and imagine: It’s…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

By Liz Carlisle. Island Press, 2022. 200 pages. $28/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. The starting point of Healing Grounds, that regenerative agriculture is…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines