2021

Reviewed by Kathleen Adamson August 30, 2021:Ivan Coyote knows our relationship with communication technology has drastically changed over the past decade. Online interactions have become the norm. First, because it was fashionable, and now, because it is necessary. While a few have welcomed this shift, many others mourn it. The question persists. What is the best way to foster … [Read more...] about Care of: Letters Connections and Cures

Reviewed by Gail Picco August 25, 2021: In You Have a Hammer, Barbara Floersch, who assumes the grantwriter knows how to fill in an application, is more interested in how charities and grantwriters are positioning themselves in relation to those with the money to make or break their missions. … [Read more...] about You Have a Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change

Reviewed by Wanda Deschamps, August 13, 2021: In the wake of the most significant anti-racism protests since the 1960s arrives Dr. Robert W. Livingston’s The Conversation. Masterfully written and expertly researched, the book explores racism and bias from a “science-based approach” and provides a map for individuals and organizations to combat it through answering three … [Read more...] about The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

Reviewed by Gail Picco  - In Likeness, an achingly sad and sometimes hilarious memoir, David Macfarlane uses a portrait of himself created by preeminent Canadian painter John Hartman as a vehicle to access his memory. … [Read more...] about Likeness: Fathers, sons, a portrait

Reviewed by Kathleen Adamson -  According to Andri Snær Magnason, we need stories. In his excellent book Of Time and Water, the award-winning Icelandic fiction author turns his hand to a nonfiction climate change narrative, braiding family memories with scientific reporting and poetic literary association. … [Read more...] about On Time and Water