Books
Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Author Vivian Gornick’s discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
Part of the maturity of Davey McGravy is how, though each poem has its own shape, each is a necessary part of the whole.
“Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation.”
Peter Davis knows Hollywood from the inside and has written a splendid novel about the great days of Tinsel Town with the kind of passion you rarely see anywhere these days.
Oliver Sacks’ On the Move is an absorbing, idiosyncratic, often moving memoir.
It’s not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.
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