Books
Jean Trounstine’s experience enables her to present convincingly the desperate circumstances of people whose family members have been arrested and incarcerated, sometimes legitimately, often not.
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Protecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.
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“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
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The volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.
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Logan Blackfeather is such a marvelous hero — and he is, in most senses of the word, heroic — that most readers will quickly connect with him and happily trail him through the significant stages of his education.
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Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the twentieth century’s poetic masters.
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Victoria Chang’s collection proffers a valuable invitation to readers to look at realms of the self that they would prefer to ignore.
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Drawing on wide-ranging research and personal anecdotes gathered during the time he spent with the company, Robert Pranzatelli navigates us through the insouciance and absurdity of Pilobolus’ past.
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In this pointed book about the harm done by the super-rich, Ingrid Robeyns is out to convince us that limiting wealth, and reallocating it, will result in a better life for all of us
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“The hardest part of the book for me to write was the conclusion. It’s a very dark book. I didn’t want to write a dark conclusion, but I also didn’t want to be Pollyannaish about it.”
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest