Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle by Natan Last is the rare crossword book that treats the humble grid as a cultural battleground rather … Read more
Politics, Scott Jennings argues in A Revolution of Common Sense, stopped listening to ordinary people long ago and disappeared into a maze of elites, bureaucracy and “woke” ideology that ignores … Read more
If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity, authority, and who gets to set the rules. “The history … Read more
Love is not a luxury for Black life—it’s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks unpacks the book’s thesis, key chapters, evidence base, and real-world … Read more
If you’ve felt your favorite platforms turn from delightful to downright hostile, you’re not imagining it. Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It … Read more
If you’ve ever felt that “girls’ culture” is dismissed as trivial, Swifterature solves that problem by showing, with gusto and rigor, how Taylor Swift’s lyrics unlock the doors of English … Read more
The Uncool summary: chapters, themes, quotes, analysis Memoirs about fame usually polish the mirror; The Uncool: A Memoir shows you the fingerprints. Crowe solves a timeless problem for music lovers … Read more
If you’ve watched U.S. politics from the sidelines and wondered how “lawfare,” media narratives, and family loyalty collide behind the scenes, Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation … Read more
Nobody’s Girl is the life-sized account of how a Florida teenager with a history of abuse was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell outside the Mar-a-Lago spa and drawn into Jeffrey Epstein’s … Read more
If the 2024 race felt like whiplash, 107 Days by Kamala Harris solves a simple problem: how to understand what really happened inside a 107-day, history-defining campaign—without spin, without guesswork. … Read more
Washington runs on soundbites and shortcuts; How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will is Senator John Kennedy’s unapologetic manual for resisting both—while showing why the capital … Read more
Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is more than a royal memoir; it’s a meticulous reckoning with grief, identity, love, the press, and the cost of duty. If you’ve … Read more
I’m Glad My Mom Died isn’t just a celebrity memoir; it’s a manual for naming abuse, reclaiming a body, and rebuilding a self. Its problem-to-solve is brutal and universal: how … Read more
We drown in screens that promise reality, yet leave us spiritually thirsty; Christ and the Media names the thirst—and shows why the well is often poisoned. Malcolm Muggeridge argues that … Read more
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is more than a graphic novel—it’s a memory machine that solves the problem of how to tell atrocity without numbing the … Read more
When a single accusation can erase a lifetime of work, Dershowitz argues that cancel culture short-circuits both free speech and due process, replacing evidence with outrage. Cancel culture is “the … Read more
The Search for the Beautiful Woman, a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty by Cho Kyo, is a definitive guide to how “beautiful” has been defined, traded, and contested … Read more