Search Results

Blog / Staff Picks

Objects of Desire: Stories

Book Review by Emily Porter

Clare Sestanovich gives us a peek into the desires of modern life, lives that are figuring out the everyday, and writes lovely short stories that give us snippets of all these lives that tie together.

Blog / Staff Picks

New Women in the Old West : From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story

Book Review by Emily Porter

Winifred Gallagher paints a picture of a hostile migration landscape with women—settlers who were White, Black and Asian—coming into their own, laying down the foundation for equal rights for generations to come—while uprooting the lives of Native Americans and Hispanic peoples.

Blog / Staff Picks

Distant Fathers

Book Review by Emily Porter

This beautiful ode to her life shows Marina Jarre finding her place in the world and deciphering her past.

Blog / Staff Picks

Animal

Book Review by Emily Porter

Weaving through the pages of this woman's life, you begin to understand how Joan came to be—maybe how any woman could come to be Joan.

Blog / Staff Picks

The Hollywood Spiral

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

After a year of spending most of the time in front of digital devices, near-future world of Paul Neilan's new book feels even more present.

Blog / Staff Picks

Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Gillian Tett explains how the tools of anthropology can be used in every aspect of our life and work to better understand what is happening around us and why—and how to make it work better.

Blog / Staff Picks

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

However many issues the former CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns, has encountered and sees in the world, she is also justly proud of all she accomplished at the top of the business world and is hopeful for a more moral, diverse, and humancentric business mindset in America.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | June 22, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | June 1, 2021

By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros

Blog / Book Giveaways

Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are

By Porchlight

You can thrive and excel when you’re working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: In REMOTE, INC. by Robert C. Pozen and Alexandra Samuel, you will learn to think like a “business of one,” and transform your remote work experience.