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Book Review: Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” — Alone At Last With Lots She Wants to Say

January 17, 2019
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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.

Book Review: “American Audacity” — Literature is the One Religion Worth Having

January 15, 2019
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Demanding that people pay attention to quality is about as audacious a demand you can take in our giddy culture.

Book Review: “Which Side Are You On?” — American History, Skimmed Over

January 14, 2019
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In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.

Book Review: “Physics & Dance” — The Intelligence of Movement

January 11, 2019
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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.

Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women

January 2, 2019
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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.

Book Review: “Chopin and His World”—A Kaleidoscopic View of His Works, His Life as a Polish Exile in Paris, and Even His Remarkable Hands

January 2, 2019
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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.

An Appreciation: Israeli Writer Amos Oz

December 31, 2018
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The late Amos Oz relished the latent anarchism in Jewish holy texts — full of debates, arguments, challenges.

Book Review: “Revive Us Again” — Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s Quest to Revive Compassion

December 24, 2018
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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.

Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

December 19, 2018
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The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.

Book Review: “In the Galway Silence” — Another Tour of Hell

December 15, 2018
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.

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