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Book Review: “What Came Before” — A Horde of Micro-essays

October 16, 2020
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At his best, Matthew Schultz’s abilities as a writer transcend the small, tight canvasses he has prepared for himself.

Children’s Book Review: On Your Toes! — New Picture Books about Ballet

October 15, 2020
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A trio of new ballet books offer messages of inclusion and acceptance that both celebrate ballet and acknowledge some of its problems.

Children’s Book Review: Music All Around — Picture Books to Play

October 14, 2020
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Two fine books for children that draw on music to deliver inspiring messages.

Book Review: “Remain in Love” — The Story of the Talking Heads, Told with Charm

October 13, 2020
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With the beguiling Remain in Love, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz puts a refreshing spin on a familiar genre.

Book Review: “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” — Creative Upheaval

October 12, 2020
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Brief and incessant, repetitive and spiraling, Panthers & the Museum of Fire offers a illuminating perspective on an internal drama: how trivial moments can become pivotal in the development of a writer.

Book Review: Kathy Valentine — Life Before and After the Go-Go’s

October 9, 2020
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In this satisfying memoir, Go-Go’s bassist and quintessential rock chick Kathy Valentine shares her experiences as a member of the most successful all-girl rock band of all time.

Poetry Feature: Louise Glück Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

October 9, 2020
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Louise Glück crafts her poems with an insinuatingly thorny power that demands the reader pay close attention.

Book Review: “Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back” — “Jews, Write and Record.”

October 8, 2020
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An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.

Book Review: The Threat of Thought — The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

October 2, 2020
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The pathway to tyranny is paved by encouraging people to believe in the uselessness of science, logic, and expertise.

Book Review: “Jack” — The Romance of Revelation

October 1, 2020
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A taboo interracial romance may not be groundbreaking material for fiction, but Robinson’s spare conflicts are only the means to generate intimations of the profound in the everyday.

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