Nonfiction: Depressing edition

Maureen Ryan, Burn It Down: ( genius does not require the suffering of other people )

Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present: ( very angry )

Bartow J. Elmore, Seed Money: ( Monsanto: threat or menace? )

Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them: ( hard to call it luck )

Harvey Levenstein, Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry About What We Eat: ( morality and eating )

Jay Timothy Dolmage, Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education: ( barriers in culture and practice )

Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War: ( the most depressing of the bunch )