Tao Leigh Goffe

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. Jan. 2025. 384p. ISBN 9780385549912. $35. HIST COPY ISBN Goffe (Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino studies, City Univ. of New York) looks at the origins of the climate crisis through the lens of racism, labor, and the colonial conquest of the Caribbean. She argues that the climate crisis began in 1492, when Columbus came to the Caribbean, which started industrialization efforts that are now warming the entire world.

Jan 30, 2025 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Tao Leigh Goffe

In Dark Laboratory, Hunter College literature professor Tao Leigh Goffe offers a cogent and feisty argument thatfocuses on race, colonialism, and environmental transformation. The “laboratory” of the book’s title is an attempt to create “a space of refuge and possibility” where scholars and writers can imagine how the violent colonialism of the West in the Caribbean and elsewhere can be repurposed.

Nov 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

Alex Hutchinson. Mariner, $32.50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-326976-7Outside columnist Hutchinson (Endure) offers an enlightening if overstuffed examination of why humans are “drawn to the unknown.” Unpacking the anthropological origins of the urge to explore, he explains how early humans’ “adaptive flexibility” drove them across oceans and helped them to survive in new and challenging environments, while the evolution of more complex planning skills and language enabled longer voyages.

Nov 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

Neil Shubin. Dutton, $32 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-18652-7In this dazzling report, Shubin (Some Assembly Required), a biology professor at the University of Chicago, examines what the Earth’s poles reveal about the planet and the universe.

Nov 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Mike Sielski |Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell

Mike Sielski. St. Martin’s, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-28752-6“The entire social, cultural, and athletic evolution of basketball can be traced through the slam dunk,” according to this energetic history. Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Sielski (The Rise) notes that in the early 20th century, basketball coaches considered dunking antithetical to the sport’s higher aspirations to improve young men’s moral character, believing the technique too ostentatious.