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Book Review: “Hunting the Truth” — Models of Activism

May 14, 2018
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Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.

Book Interview: Tracy Fessenden, author of “Religion Around Billie Holiday”

May 14, 2018
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“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”

Book Review: “So Lucky” — A Body-Slam of Empowerment

May 12, 2018
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So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.

Book Review: “The View From Flyover Country” — Sounding the Alarm

May 9, 2018
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If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.

Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese

May 9, 2018
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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.

Book Review and Interview: Steve Almond’s “Bad Stories”

May 8, 2018
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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.”

Book Review: George Szell’s Reign — Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra

May 5, 2018
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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.

Poetry Review: “Not Elegy, But Eros” — A Skilled New Voice

April 27, 2018
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Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.

Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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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.

Book Review: “A Short History of Ireland” — A Concise Past

April 20, 2018
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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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