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Book Review: “Birdcage Walk” — Helen Dunmore’s Exhilarating Farewell

September 12, 2017
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Helen Dunmore’s astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.

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Book Review: “Mrs. Fletcher” — Genially Amusing Sexual Satire

September 4, 2017
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Tom Perrotta zeroes in on liberal pieties, a sure way to spice up the fun he has with our current cultural obsessions.

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Book Review: “The Customer Is Always Wrong” – Counterculture Behind the Counter

September 4, 2017
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Jazz CD and Book Review: Pianist Fred Hersch — On the Page and on Disc

September 3, 2017
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A gripping autobiography and beautiful new solo CD from a master jazz pianist — Fred Hersch.

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Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

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Book Review: “The Language of Light” — History With a Point of View

August 24, 2017
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Gerald Shea’s is a powerful voice for the legitimacy of Sign Languages of the Deaf and for visual communication as an essential human right.

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Book Review: Richard A. Posner — A Rare Judge Who Tells Us How He Really Feels

August 14, 2017
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Why didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.

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Book Interview: Thomas Kitson on a Neglected Gem of Russian Modernism

August 3, 2017
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Iliazd is more interested in working through all the possible reasons that generate behavior rather than grappling with issues of morality.

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Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery

August 3, 2017
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This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.

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Book Review: “No Is Not Enough” — Damned by Branding

July 30, 2017
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Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.

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