A crime thriller that is also a survey of struggles: between identities, families, cultures, and the groups we form.
Author Archives: Carlen
Killers of the Flower Moon
A story from the 1920s, about how the world’s richest people were becoming the world’s most murdered.
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is a cultural and educational entity. They care for one of the world’s largest collections of Native artifacts, such as objects and photographs, spanning the entire Western Hemisphere.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #54
The Non-fiction Feature: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Fiction Spot: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Product Spot: National Museum of the American Indian
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
How the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions can shape police behavior, for better or worse.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #49
The Non-fiction Feature: Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
The Fiction Spot: 2054 by Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
The Product Spot: NatGeo Geography page
Prisoners of Geography – Ten Maps that Explain Everything about the World
How geography can shape political decisions, economies, and futures.
NatGeo Geography page
NatGeo’s Geography page, filled with explainers and interactive programs, is a chance to explore what geography is and how it shapes our world and choices.
2054
2054 is a political sci-fi thriller, set a few decades in the future, after a war between the U.S. and China completely blows up the current political order.
The Rock Eaters
The Rock Eaters is Brenda Peynado’s beautiful collection of short stories, and it spans a wide range of issues–immigration, class differences, xenophobia, debt and more–and often has a touch of magical realism.