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Book Review: “Shakespeare and Baseball” — Make “Speed to Catch the Tiger”

March 18, 2024
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Professor Crowl’s attachments to both Shakespeare’s plays and the play of the Detroit Tigers are sincere and durable.

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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.

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Book Review: “The Road from Belhaven” — How Hope and Resilience Can Prevail

March 15, 2024
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Margot Livesey has given us an exhilarating historical novel filled with fascinating details of a different time in an isolated part of the world, all rendered in gorgeous prose.

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Book Review: “Galway Confidential” — Amidst the Castaways

March 14, 2024
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At a time when it seems as if the world is spinning out of control, steeped in anonymous violence, a Jack Taylor novel provides a front and center opportunity to contemplate doing something about the issues in our own backyard.

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Book Review: “Spirit of the Century” — The Inspiring History of the Blind Boys of Alabama

March 11, 2024
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“Spirit of the Century” is a riveting celebration of the Blind Boys of Alabama’s glorious and often unpredictable musical journey.

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Book Review: “The Amen Effect” — Call It Pastoral Community Organizing

March 11, 2024
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This small volume is apt to become a classic that is passed hand to hand.

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Book Review: More Hilarious Satiric Depravity From Vladimir Sorokin — The Tsars My Destination

March 9, 2024
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Russian satirist Vladimir Sorokin’s excremental vision triumphs in two new translations.

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Book Review: “A Grave Robbery” — Adventures of a Kick-Ass Victorian Feminist

March 9, 2024
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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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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.

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Book Review: “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Generous and Eloquent

March 4, 2024
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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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