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TIME recommends HOW THE WORD IS PASSED

May 25, 2021


TIME Magazine recommends Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed on their summer reading list:

“An evocative & frank exploration of the American slave trade, mapping the wide-reaching effects of our nation’s greatest shame from Angola… to lower Manhattan’s dark past as a slave market hub.”

https://time.com/6049551/best-books-summer-2021/

Clint Smith’s excerpt on the cover of the Atlantic

May 10, 2021


An excerpt from Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed is on the cover of the June issue of the Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/06/confederate-lost-cause-myth/618711/

Esquire recommends UNDER A WHITE SKY

April 22, 2021


Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky makes Esquire’s list of 10 Best Books of 2021 (so far):

“Elizabeth Kolbert’s urgent, deeply researched text asks if our ingenuity can outrun our hubris.”

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g36174785/best-nonfiction-books-2021/

Congratulations to the Whiting Award winners

April 14, 2021


Congratulations to the ten extraordinary 2021 Whiting Award winners!

https://www.whiting.org/writers/awards/current-winners

Guardian reviews UNDER A WHITE SKY

March 06, 2021


Jonathan Watts reviews Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky in the Guardian:

“A meticulously researched & deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age. It also manages to be wickedly funny.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/06/it-is-the-question-of-the-century-will-tech-solve-the-climate-crisis-or-make-it-worse

New York Times glowing review of UNDER A WHITE SKY

March 01, 2021


Helen Macdonald praises Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky in her review for the New York Times:

“Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment, time to work with what we have, using the knowledge we have, with our eyes fully open to the realities of where we are.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/books/review/elizabeth-kolbert-under-a-white-sky.html

Ron Charles praises UNDER A WHITE SKY

February 28, 2021


On CBS Sunday, Ron Charles praises Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky:

“A troubling examination of the elaborate and possibly futile efforts human beings are making to repair all the damage we’re doing to the Earth as though we’re repainting the house while burning it down.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-book-report-reviews-from-washington-post-critic-ron-charles-february-28-2021/

Publishers Weekly recommends HOW THE WORD IS PASSED

February 18, 2021


Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed on Publishers Weekly’s list of Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/85492-the-most-anticipated-books-of-spring-2021.html

Washington Post glowing review of UNDER A WHITE SKY

February 11, 2021


Carlos Lozada reviews Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky in the Washington Post:

“Expertly mixes travelogue, science reporting and explanatory journalism.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/11/kolbert-white-sky/

THINK AGAIN an instant bestseller

February 10, 2021


Think Again by Adam Grant is an instant New York Times bestseller—#1 on the combined print & e-book list and #2 on the print hardcover list!

Elizabeth Kolbert on Fresh Air

February 09, 2021


From Electrifying Rivers To Dimming The Sun, How Humans Try (And Fail) To Master Nature: Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky, interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965335352/from-electrifying-rivers-to-dimming-the-sun-how-humans-try-and-fail-to-master-na

Tyra Banks recommends THINK AGAIN

February 06, 2021


Tyra Banks recommends Adam Grant’s Think Again:

“This man is pretty genius. I’ve learned so much from him. I’m really excited to read his new book, THINK AGAIN—it’s about rethinking our opinions, opening other people’s minds & building cultures of lifelong learning.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9qM4tHdCP/?igshid=1i86ms0hxeykt



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