You Know You Want This
June 30, 2019Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This is a collection of short stories that revels in the mystifying aspects of interpersonal relationships without ever feeling the need to justify them.
Look How Happy I’m Making You
May 31, 2019Polly Rosenwaike’s short stories on the power of compassion in the face of uncertainty.
Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies
March 31, 2019Music education is long overdue for a change, according to Ed Sarath, Department of Jazz Professor of Music at the University of Michigan. Not only is it not preparing students for a fulfilling career in music, its approach to learning and skill development needs to be fundamentally revamped. In Black Music Matters, Sarath proposes that
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters
February 8, 2019The most recent book of Kalamazoo-native Bonnie Jo Campbell is as visceral as it is honest. A compilation of short stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters explores the lives and relationships of women in rural settings. With varied character perspectives, the book runs the gambit of trials and tribulations: sexual assault, substance abuse, unwanted pregnancies, neglect,
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries Of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, And The Calumet Massacre Of 1913
December 31, 2018Author Danial Wolff chronicles the songs of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie on the Calumet Massacre of 1913.
Emergent Strategy—What Nature’s Underdogs Can Teach Us about Surviving Against the Odds
November 30, 2018brown says that Emergent Strategy is ultimately about facilitation, which she defines as the art of “making it easier for humans to work together and get things done.” If the first half of the book is a zoom-out, looking at broader patterns, the second half zooms in, with activities for the reader to put emergent strategy principles into practice and improve the sustainability of individual and collective work.