From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US-China relationship has become increasingly hostile in recent years. Whether in the form of overtly racist rhetoric and aggressive trade actions, or the more buttoned down but equally antagonistic efforts to oppose Chinese interests abroad, the US has made clear that it has no ... Read More

The Ithaca is Books Festival exists to celebrate the authors, performers, and storytellers who illuminate our world and introduce us to new ones. Events will be hosted all over town including readings and conversations with Jonathan Letham, Steven Salvatore, and Debbie Urbanski. As part of the festival, the book fair will take place on The Commons on September 14th and ... Read More

Autumn Leaves is excited to welcome Marion Nestle, nutrition expert and author of the new book What To Eat Now. Published in 2006, Marion Nestle's What To Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Twenty years later, What To Eat Now revises the classic. It is a practical supermarket guide and a call ... Read More

Autumn Leaves Books on the Ithaca Commons is excited to welcome local author and union organizer Ellen David Friedman for the launch of her new book Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard. The book, illustrated by artist Fernando Martí and published by PM Press, features true stories from workplace activists and lessons from the frontlines. Keep Going ... Read More

Join Autumn Leaves Books for a night of poetry with celebrated local poets Mary Gilliland and Peter Fortunato. Both writers will read from their latest books. Mary Gilliland's collection Within the Shop of the Divine (Arc Publication, 2025) includes poems about grief and recovery, poems "abundant in flora and fauna, rich in life and matter and earthed in the spaces ... Read More