Books
Here is why you have to read this book: It gives proof to my faith that those beautiful lines and paragraphs created through the ages can comfort in present distress and continue to do so as one heals.
Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”
I would have preferred a more reflective, in-depth account of becoming a man in 2020, but Becoming A Man is an informative, fast, and fascinating read.
What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.
Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash
We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.
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