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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.
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.
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.
Michael C. Smith’s new Boston Carnival photo book proves that “Culture Lives Here.”
Doctor, do you understand what I was up against? My wang was all I really had that I could call my own…
99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
Susan Larson’s The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.
We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves.
This fine novel is portrait of Baltimore as a city at war with itself.
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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