08/29/2026
For all you freaks who escape reality by reading more reality, we have a great stack of new nonfiction for ya!
NO PROPHETS is a behind-the-scenes look at the shocking extent of Christian nationalism’s reach in our government—and the fight to defend church-state separation. (Hint: looks like we’ve gotta form an intersectional interfaith movement to win.)
Would you choose the man or the bear? UP ON COVE MOUNTAIN dives into the profound experiences of death, violence, and aging in the middle of the woods. In 1990, a youthful Earl Swift backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, a transformative experience that colored every aspect of his later life. He emerged from his hike across the rugged, sky-high roof of fourteen eastern states a sharper and more organized thinker, a better problem solver, and a committed outdoorsman.
But he also left the AT with baggage: Early in his odyssey, he spent time with a couple of other southbounders, who were friendly, capable, and doing everything right, but who were nonetheless murdered weeks later at a mountaintop campsite in Pennsylvania—a fit of violence that the killer never explained...
