Books
A trio of picture books about people establishing nurturing links.
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The best part of the Silver/Ursini book is the padding, the last forty pages in which the two authors go past “Double Indemnity”‘s release to contextualize it within the generic stream of “film noir”.
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Get ready for spring with these children’s picture books.
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Lyle C. May reminds us that large numbers of men sentenced to death have been exonerated, and that at every level the apparatus of the carceral state is erratic at best and dramatically biased against minorities and the poor.
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“Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.
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This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks up a commodity that fills the coffers of large corporations.
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“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”
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Jean Trounstine’s experience enables her to present convincingly the desperate circumstances of people whose family members have been arrested and incarcerated, sometimes legitimately, often not.
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Protecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.
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“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
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