Book Reviews – Tagged "Editor's Choice"– Page 4 – Porchlight Book Company

Jul 07, 2023

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

by Jasmine Gonzalez

There are many love letters to books out there, but what Satoshi Yagisawa celebrates in this novel is not just books themselves, but how books can transform us.

Jun 30, 2023

Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets

by Dylan Schleicher

Paula DiPerna writes beautifully about the moral bankruptcy of how value is assigned in our society, and of the sensible, sustainable ways we can flip the script to repair our economics and environment.

Jun 22, 2023

Korea: A New History of South and North

by Jasmine Gonzalez

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo offer readers a solid foundation on the histories of North and South Korea that will add much-needed context to any conversation on Korean politics and culture.

Jun 16, 2023

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

by Dylan Schleicher

Rainesford Stauffer reminds us that it is not enough to be ambitious, and just how harmful personal ambition can be. The question is: what are we ambitious about?

Jun 01, 2023

The Case for Good Jobs

by Jasmine Gonzalez

Good jobs can be hard to find. But, as I learned early in life, they can also be found in the most unexpected of places. MIT Sloan professor Zeynep Ton has a new book explaining how they're created.