Chapter 16

A Moral Revolution

Our Kindred Creatures surveys the origins of the anti-cruelty movement

By Whitney Bryant | May 14, 2024

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy’s Our Kindred Creatures is a provocative, sometimes disturbing examination of Americans’ evolving attitudes toward animals from 1866 to 1896. The authors will appear at The Bookshop in Nashville on May 23.

A Committed Conservative

Nancy French’s memoir recounts her journey of faith, love, and politics

By Whitney Bryant | April 24, 2024

Breakups are hard — in some cases, dangerous. Ghosted: An American Story is conservative writer and activist Nancy French’s account of her split with the Republican Party following its embrace of Donald Trump and the harassment she and her family subsequently experienced.

Distant Sons

Tim Johnston
Algonquin Books
400 pages
$29

“Tim Johnston has once again raised the bar for the literary thriller. Distant Sons is elegant and edgy, refined and complex. It excavates the truth from the darkest recesses of the past and shines a light towards the possibility of a redemptive future.”

~ Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women and Sing Her Down