As California swelters in unprecedented heat and lack of rain, it finds itself in the middle of yet another historic drought. Mark Arax’s assessments of the state’s perennial issues with water resources in his critically acclaimed The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California are more urgent and relevant than ever. The Dreamt Land is a

U.S. News & World Report, which publishes the most widely quoted annual set of rankings for American colleges and universities, recently shared their list of “10 Books to Read Before College.” Describing these books as “assigned texts [that] are regularly used in freshman-level classes and offer students a chance to come together to discuss a

Contributed by Katharine K. Wilkinson, co-editor of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis “I was shaking as I read the opening essay because I felt so empowered,” one of my students shared at the start of the fall 2020 semester. I’d spent the previous nine months co-editing the bestselling