BackAcclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the backand the conflicting ideas we load upon it. Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U. S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender, labor, race, and political solidarity. Here the back emerges as a site of vulnerability and desire, embodiment and rhetoric, dependence and resistance. Jacksons

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It asks whether love is balm or curse to a restless soul – and whether words in the wind can change everything

No true Hollows aficionado will want to pass this up—and readers of Laurell K

and resilience that reveals the indelible power of introspection to save our lives

Scrolling for gratification

and banding together in shared sacrifice

it is not surprising that when we talk about leadership

Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)

From Matt Birkbeck—investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix’s #1 movie Girl in the Picture—a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William “Big Billy” D’Elia

became gravely ill and fell into a coma

the critically acclaimed author of The Polished Hoe—winner of the Giller Prize—comes More

Laugh-Out-Loud School Humor: From surviving Dad's toxic oatmeal to facing off with his nemesis teacher