Books
Colson Whitehead’s work is political in the sense that he has an incredibly keen eye for the insidious ways in which institutions and structures of power work.
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A new biography of the oft-forgotten ‘filibuster’ provides ample facts and little thesis. Is that enough — don’t we need more?
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To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.
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Robert Macfarlane’s ability to limn the pull between beauty and cataclysm provides a dynamism that elevates this book well above the level of simple “nature” writing.
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This is the first in a series of pages in which in one of our critics, working with a young person, comes up with an arts review.
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Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.
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Michael C. Smith’s new Boston Carnival photo book proves that “Culture Lives Here.”
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Doctor, do you understand what I was up against? My wang was all I really had that I could call my own…
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99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
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Book Review: “The Future is Asian” — Challenging Western Ideology
Marshaling statistics, maps, scholarly literature, news articles, and reports, The Future is Asian cogently dramatizes the reasons behind Asia’s re-ascendance to economic, political, and cultural primacy.
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