Talking Shelves

By Taous Claire Khazem Alice Zeniter’s novel The Art of Losing tells the story of Naïma, a gallery curator who returns to her father’s native Algeria that he left as a child

By Maxwell Yang During the winter of 2022, I had the opportunity to work with the East Side Freedom Library as a means of giving back to my community. The

By Mary Turck In We Are Meant to Rise, Minnesota indigenous writers and writers of color reflect on and react to the year 2020: the year that began the COVID pandemic,

By Romare Onishi Just in its name, the Cleveland Indians don’t sound like a team that helped pave the way to racially integrated baseball. However, in the book Our Team, Luke

By Michaela Corniea Let me tell you a story about the book collection of Toni Randolph. Step into the old Carnegie library on Greenbrier Street, now home of the East

Review by Michaela Corniea Published in 1998, On the Outside Looking In by Cristina Rathbone is a journalist’s exploration of the lives of inner-city kids in New York. Taking place in the

by Romare Onishi I found the book, “What’s My Name, Fool?” by Dave Zirin, very interesting because I like the sport of baseball, and the book went into depth about many different aspects

Reviewed Mary Turck Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. focuses on James Baldwin, and I have not read enough of

The National Japanese American Citizens League is the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American Civil Rights Organization.  It was founded in 1929 to address issues of discrimination targeted specifically at

Salvatore Salerno has long been one of this country’s leading scholars on labor and cultural activism among Italian immigrant workers, particularly in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).  He