Blending journalism, commentary, and theater, Anna Deavere Smith is known for performances that explore complex and vital social issues. Her new work, Doing Time in Education: The School-to-Prison Pipeline,
"If you add up the two-dimensional and the three dimensional to create a new spatial entity, does that mean you're in the fifth dimension? Whatever you choose to call it, such a perspective melting world is the realm in which the
For National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas, reminding people just how much fun reading can be is a top priority. As the organization's first female and African American in that role, she's also com
"Ralph Nader is the grand progressive of our time. We overlook his words at our own peril!" —Cornel West Consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform: Since the publication in 1965 of his
"This is an essential and ground-breaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me In 2012,
"A singular humanization of the mathematical project." —Booklist, starred review There are few who are brave enough to spar with Stephen Colbert, and even fewer who would proclaim to a decidedly n
" is a radicalism that looks like the future of common sense…A singular book." ―Vulture Both Maggie Nelson and Sarah Manguso take on complex
"La Misa Negra has been upending the Latin music genre, infusing tradition with outside musical influences…and contemporary subject matter." —The San Francisco Chronicle With an electrif
Philosopher and NYU professor Kwame Anthony Appiah has been a leader in scholarly research and public conversations on morality. With a focus that has ranged from cosmopolitanism to cultural literacy, Appiah, who also writes the weekly "The Ethic
