Ed Meek

Book Review: “Women and Children First” — Keeping Their Heads Above Water

September 16, 2024
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In her debut novel, Alina Grabowski taps into today’s zeitgeist — this is a story of compelling women who must deal with men who disappear or let them down.

Book Review: “The Sixth Extinction, Tenth Anniversary Edition” — Still Essential

June 12, 2024
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Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.

Book Review: “Limitarianism” — An Idea Whose Time Has Come

March 30, 2024
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In this pointed book about the harm done by the super-rich, Ingrid Robeyns is out to convince us that limiting wealth, and reallocating it, will result in a better life for all of us

Book Review: Debra Spark’s “Discipline” — A Mosaic of Mysteries

March 16, 2024
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Debra Spark’s novel “Discipline” explores thorny questions about the role of art and the nature of truth.

Book Review: Akshat Rathi’s “Climate Capitalism” — We Have Made Progress

March 6, 2024
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This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.

Book Review: “Waiting for Al Gore” — Birds of a Feather

February 20, 2024
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For a light-hearted take on some serious issues, “Waiting for Al Gore” delivers.

Book Review: Michael Glenn’s “Selected Stories” — Indelibly Messy Slices of Life

February 2, 2024
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In his short stories, Michael Glenn has a physician’s eye for detail and a psychologist’s insight into the way we think and what motivates us.

Book Review: What Comes After Black Lives Matter?

September 14, 2023
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In this book, Cedric G. Johnson perceptively sees that our current emphasis on identity politics is a troublesome diversion in which various groups treat improvements as a zero-sum game.

Book Review: “The Anniversary” — A Smart and Entertaining Mystery

July 16, 2023
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Stephanie Bishop does a great job withholding information and she is also good at tying together the narrative’s many loose ends.

Book Review: “Dirtbag, Massachusetts, A Confessional” — The Self-Indulgence of Victimhood

March 18, 2023
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Essayist Isaac Fitzgerald sees the world from the perspective of someone who was victimized — in his case, by a physically abusive father and a needy, emotionally abusive mother.

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