Nonfiction A Return to Muckraker Journalism “American Muckraker” By James O’Keefe In advocating a return to muckraker journalism, O’Keefe addresses how journalism developed—it was grassroots and blue-collar—where it went wrong, and how today anyone who witnesses a wrong can—and should—take courage, record it, and expose it. Post Hill, 2022, 288 pages Fiction A Post-Apocalyptic Classic “A Canticle for Leibowitz” By Walter M. Miller, Jr. Centuries after a nuclear war has devastated Earth, the monks of Leibowitz Abbey preserve bits and pieces of the old civilization, trying to reconstruct the lost world from words that now make little sense to them. They must also contend with marauders. Though Miller brings humor into his tale, it’s primarily a reflection on mankind’s inability to learn lessons from the past. The story also examines the consequences of prideful humans who seek to act as gods, a message we might do well to ponder. HarperCollins, …
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