Books
Mary Oliver’s poetic vision reaches back to the American transcendentalists: it encourages us, by demanding that we pay attention to our now threatened natural world, to find a moral compass.
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Becoming is a contemporary woman’s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.
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Demanding that people pay attention to quality is about as audacious a demand you can take in our giddy culture.
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In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.
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The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing — an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics’ theories and abstractions.
Read More What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.
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Chopin and His World establishes multiple new starting points for further studies of one of the world’s greatest composers, yet it can be read with pleasure by people who merely(!) love the music.
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The late Amos Oz relished the latent anarchism in Jewish holy texts — full of debates, arguments, challenges.
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Rev William Barber II has effectively demonstrated again and again what he often calls “fusion politics” across lines of race, age, and religion.
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Arts Commentary: The Authors Guild’s Modest Proposal
Invariably, these economic realities are barriers to entry into the broader cultural arena for the less-well-heeled among us, sustaining inequity.
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