Bookworm, no. 126

Emily Mernin reviews Marcello Di Cintio’s “Precarious.” Heidi Rennert on Angie Ellis’s “A Snake and a Feathered Bird.” Our best illustrations of 2025. Inside the December issue.

Dec 16, 2025

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Ground Work

Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers
Marcello Di Cintio
Biblioasis
342 pages, softcover and ebook

In June 2022, the journalist Marcello Di Cintio sliced potatoes at an event hall in Langley, British Columbia, while other volunteers made salsa and brewed hibiscus tea. He was helping set up a Día del Padre dinner hosted by Dignidad Migrante, an…

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