Books
If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.
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Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
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We built this form of democracy and now we must stand up to what it’s become and say “I don’t consent to this.”
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George Szell’s Reign is ultimately an accessible, often sociable, but sometimes perplexing fan’s history of the Orchestra and its storied music director.
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Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.
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Gibney’s volume offers a wide range of readers with an introduction to the complexities of Irish history, including questions of what exactly constitutes the national history itself.
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Thomas Doherty’s fragmented, stop-and-start-again style dilutes narrative authority and further complicates an already very complicated story.
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Steven Pinker’s book is a welcome antidote to the Trump era, when we are inundated, daily, with an avalanche of negative and disturbing stories.
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No Way Home is a model for how to tell a weird, complicated story in a way that will make the reader hang on tight for the whole ride.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues