Books
As in her previous thrillers, Donna Raybourn’s dry wit serves double duty: defining our erudite heroine and presenting her view of a world that does not know what to make of her.
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This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.
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This arch-New Englander, descendant of Puritans, is also “the American who resists branding, who will not be commodified.”
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Because they were masters of performance, metamorphosis, and movement — of “containing multitudes” — Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan are the closest peers to Whitman America has yet produced.
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This splendid book should be read by every child and adult who is convinced he doesn’t “fit in.”
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Shouting and honking saxes made visceral appeals to the emotions and the body. For jazz critics, this kind of theatricality degraded what should have been ‘Art.’
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Reporter Kara Swisher’s fought with just about every important tech bro titan (and yes, they are all bros) from Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and many others – and has always come out on top.
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“The Path to Paradise” is yet another bio in praise of a high modernist male artist who is seen as that much more colorful because of his excesses and failures.
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The stories in this collection are uneven, although to my mind the beauty and brilliance of the best outweigh the others.
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“Wheatley at 250” poignantly responds to the poet’s voice and experiences in order to help us understand ourselves in the 21st century.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest