Books
This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.
Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.
It’s probably unfair, but attending the Flaherty, I kept seeing in my mind the pig Napoleon and his attack dogs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Given the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.
So now you know: Saddam’s fearsome weapon of mass destruction was a novel.
Reading Little Kisses is reassuring — and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.
The history and process of judicial selection — dispassionately detailed.
Focusing on these indomitable and sometimes troubling women, Fought has written an engaging book that is compelling, sometimes even fierce.
Unfortunately, poetry doesn’t sell and doesn’t get made into movies.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters