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Avid Reader Press, $27 Everyone poops. But not everyone has a safe, sanitary place to do it. What’s more, existing wastewater treatments consume tons of water and energy while flushing away materials that could make fertilizers, fuels and other products. “We can do better,” science journalist Chelsea Wald writes in Pipe Dreams, which recounts how scientists, entrepreneurs and activists are coming up with creative ways to make bathrooms more available and sustainable. About 2 billion people lack access to adequate toilets. Pipe Dreams spotlights organizations that seek to change that. ...

Skip to main content Book World: Patricia Engel's 'Infinite Country' focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart Jake Cline, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Patricia Engel - - - Patricia Engel's novels don't begin so much as they crack open. Consider the first line of the Miami writer's 2010 debut, "Vida": "It was the year my uncle got arrested for killing his wife, and our family was the subject of all the town gossip." The start of 2016's "The Veins of the Ocean" presents a man, maddened by his wife's infidelity, who takes their toddler son to a brid...

My impression is that Ross Douthat, a conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, is — despite what posters to the comments section on his columns might say — no Harry Lime. His latest book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success is, however, somewhat Limean in its application of the Frontier thesis to humanity at large, and in its insistence on the connection between struggle, expansion, and progress. A substantial book by one of the more serious people in American public life today, The Decadent Society deserves a wide readership. As its subtitle,...