The Beloved Republic Book Release

Ta da! We at Wandering Aengus Press are delighted to announce the release of Steven Harvey's inspiring essay collection, The Beloved Republic. In a guest review at The Humble Essayist, Sarah M. Wells, author of American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation, "Steven Harvey’s collection of essays is one that considers thresholds, the limbic spaces of transition, as the republic seems to crumble, perspectives on race and sexuality evolve, the political becomes personal, and mortality looms." In a world at times beseiged by "tyrants, thugs, and loud-mouthed bullies," as Harvey describes them, The Beloved Republic is a peaceful and loving antidote to authoritarianism and the subcultures that facilitate it. The collection of personal essays takes its title from a term coined by E.M. Forster, who described it as "an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate, and the plucky” who “have the power to endure” and “can take a joke.” Two of the essays were published in the Best American Essays series, and the entire collection won the hearts of our editorial team as we selected it as winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Nonfiction.