Books

Book Review: “Playing Changes” — Redefining Jazz

December 13, 2018
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This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.

Jazz/Book Review: Saxophonist Dexter Gordon — Portrait of a Sophisticated Giant

December 5, 2018
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Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.

Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

December 2, 2018
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

Book Review: Diane Williams, Flash Fiction, and the Shrinking Short Story

November 27, 2018
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.

Book Review: Learning from the Master — Elie Wiesel

November 27, 2018
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“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”

Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

November 23, 2018
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The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.

Poetry Review: Poems, Not Artifacts — “New Poets of Native Nations” and a “Poets Playlist” at the Peabody

November 21, 2018
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Editor Heidi E. Erdrich has brought together a richly varied selection of poems, chosen from first collections of poetry written by twenty-one Native poets since the year 2000.

Poetry Review: Leonard Cohen’s “The Flame” — The Errant Canadian Comes Home

November 20, 2018
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Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.

Book Review: Memories of Buczacz — Jewish History from the Bottom Up

November 18, 2018
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These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.

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