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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jeanne Theoharis |Omar El Akkad |Alok Vaid-Menon
A powerful must-read that sheds new light on King and the Civil Rights Movement. For decades, biographers have focused on Martin Luther King Jr.’s successful leadership in the South while suggesting that his Northern activism failed because it lacked direction and local support.
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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Michael Lewis |Omar El Akkad |Alok Vaid-Menon
Compelling arguments against ideologues bent on dismantling the government. Deep state, shmeep state: a spirited rebuttal to the canard that federal civil servants are nest-featherers up to no good. “The fact is that federal employees go to work every day with the explicit job description of making the lives of everyday Americans better.” So writes W.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tamika D. Mallory |Howard Zinn |Alok Vaid-Menon
Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natasha Hakimi Zapata |Howard Zinn |Alok Vaid-Menon
Full of lessons for American activists on how to bring enhanced social welfare programs into reality, despite the odds. A tour of progressive countries and their solutions to problems of social issues such as education and health care. An American resident in Europe, Hakimi Zapata tours the world to analyze the ways in which developed nations have enacted programs leading to progress in meeting social needs.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Reid Hoffman |Walter Isaacson |Alok Vaid-Menon
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ian Goldin |Walter Isaacson |Alok Vaid-Menon
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Cheryl L. Neely |Ta-Nehisi Coates |Alok Vaid-Menon
Activists involved in equitable policing, judicial reform, and victims’ rights will find value in Neely’s account. A sociologist examines murders of Black women that have gone unnoticed, unsolved, and forgotten.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jeffrey Toobin |Alok Vaid-Menon |Ta-Nehisi Coates
A sharp-edged work of legal journalism that will fascinate politics junkies. Legal commentator Toobin examines the power of presidents to pardon others—and perhaps themselves. “There is…no check or balance on the president’s power to pardon. It is the provision of the Constitution most directly descended from the authority of kings of England,” writes Toobin.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Bob Woodward |Alok Vaid-Menon |Kathy Eckles Hooker |Helen Lau Running
A straightforward and richly atmospheric illustrated look at traditional Navajo customs. A collection of stories and wisdom from traditional Navajo culture.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Farhad Khosrokhavar |Bob Woodward |Alok Vaid-Menon
An engrossing and ominous chronicle, told by a master of the form. In his most recent behind-the-scenes account of political power and how it is wielded, Woodward synthesizes several narrative strands, from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel to the 2024 presidential campaign. Woodward’s clear, gripping storytelling benefits from his legendary access to prominent figures and a structure of propulsive chapters.
