The latest from internationally celebrated author Romesh Gunesekera, Suncatcher debuted in the United States earlier this month. The novel tells a tumultuous, heartfelt coming-of-age story, praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a lyrical and evocative portrait of a Sri Lankan boyhood friendship and the life lessons that came with it.”

While many folks transition to working from home, let’s keep in mind the many others who don’t have the luxury of doing so, including the tens of thousands of people locked up in immigrant detention, the millions incarcerated in prisons and jails, and more. A public health crisis isn’t reason to press pause on our advocacy for immigrant justice, prisoners’ rights, workers’ rights, housing justice, environmental justice, and other key issues.

An exceptional new work of deeply-reported narrative nonfiction, research, and public policy, Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection documents a long-simmering, and also long-neglected, social crisis: the fact that 1 in 9 young adults in America between the ages of 16 and 24 are neither in school nor in work. Author Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities are almost nonexi

Most Americans know of Rosa Parks, the Black woman who famously refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Alabama, and helped to ignite the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Equally well known is Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a formidable force in her own right. But a majority of Americans would have a hard time naming other important female leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, although there were many more than two.