Culture Shocks

Fred Stoller

robinson — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:57:46 +0000

Fred Stoller has played the annoying schnook in just about every sitcom you’ve seen on TV, but he’s never found a solid gig and his life of a perennial guest star is chronicled in Maybe We’ll Have You Back.

Katie Beers, Rayya Elias

robinson — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:56:10 +0000

Katie Beers was abducted by a family friend, held captive in an underground cell for 17 days and sexually abused. Buried Memories is her story of survival and recovery. Later, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Harley Loco charts 4 decades of a life lived in the moment, a path from harrowing loss and darkness to a place of peace and redemption.

Marcia Coyle

robinson — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:31:27 +0000

Marcia Coyle’s brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisions—concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools in The Roberts Court.

Susan Jacoby

robinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:48:52 +0000

Feminist and bestselling author, Susan Jacoby looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have in Last Men on Top.

David Rosner

robinson — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:38:47 +0000

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health in Lead Wars.

Julia Sweeney

robinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:59:04 +0000

Comedian Julia Sweeney, creator of the androgynous “Saturday Night Live” character Pat, is also a talented essayist and her new book If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother is poignant, provocative, and wise.

Erica Greider

robinson — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:18:31 +0000

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state, evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Yet, according to journalist Erica Grieder, the country has a great deal to learn from the state in Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right.

Gar Alperovitz

robinson — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:06:33 +0000

In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin.

Jessica Mason Pieklo

robinson — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:05:01 +0000

Crow After Roe examines eleven states since 2010 that have each passed a different anti-abortion or anti-women’s health law explicitly written to provoke a repeal of Roe v. Wade. Co-author, Jessica Pieklo tells us what has changed.

Kathryn Joyce

robinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:05:37 +0000

Kathryn Joyce‘s, The Child Catchers is a shocking exposé of what the adoption industry has become and how it got there, told through deep investigative reporting and the heartbreaking stories of individuals who became collateral damage in a market driven by profit and, now, pulpit command.