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After 75 Years, What Is NATO Good for?
Jul 9, 2024 A new book argues the Washington-led alliance is an obstruction to peace, not its guarantor.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Detroit60s-1024x683.png)
Acid Rhythms
Jun 28, 2024 How the post-riot cultural turn in Detroit seeded a musical lineage that responds in ever-new ways to the world-altering mood of deindustrialization.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Bonnet-Carre-spillway-1024x683.webp)
The Fraught History of the Mississippi River
Jun 21, 2024 A new book tells the modern history of the "Big Muddy" as a tragedy wrought by colonial hubris.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Gopnik-Celine-1024x767.webp)
They Don’t Decorate Carcasses
Jun 7, 2024 A long-lost anti-war novel by Louis-Ferdinand Celine gets the English translation it deserves.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AdobeStock_291552508-1024x678.jpeg)
How Plants Experience the World
May 24, 2024 In ‘The Light Eaters,’ Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/haitirevolutionbookreview-1024x683.png)
The Intellectual Influence of the Haitian Revolution
May 17, 2024 A new book recovers the intellectual contribution of Haitian revolutionaries to ideas of freedom, equality, and sovereignty in the Atlantic World.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KnipfelObitsFeaturedImage-1024x683.png)
What We Leave Behind
May 3, 2024 A new book explores the deaths of artists and the ex-con turned Metropolitan Museum of Art staffer who collected their obituaries.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AdobeStock_125302078-1024x683.jpeg)
Food That Prolongs Your Life
Apr 19, 2024 Jean Carper shows that people who eat “optimal” diets can slow their aging process and add years to their lives.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AdobeStock_176466059-1024x683.jpeg)
Confronting the Crisis of Climate Displacement
Mar 29, 2024 In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten details how global warming could displace millions of Americans.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24038804382291-1024x683.jpg)
Haiti: Between Death Squads and the Next Colonial Invasion
Mar 19, 2024 Jake Johnston’s carefully investigated book sheds light on the geopolitical origins of the paramilitary death squads currently wreaking havoc on Port-au-Prince.![](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AdobeStock_706704555-1024x585.jpeg)