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Book Review: “Big Time” — Satirizing Small Time, Short Term Thinkers

November 27, 2024
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We should be grateful to Rus Bradburd for giving us an opportunity to laugh as the forces of marketing and ignorance steamroll — ominously and without sufficient kickback — across the academic landscape.

Book Review: “Feh: A Memoir” — “Take My Life…Please!”

November 27, 2024
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In “Feh,” Shalom Auslander confronts being middle-aged, a time of life that, given his external circumstances, you would think he would be celebrating. But, instead of kvelling, he’s sunk, hilariously, in the depths of despair.

Book Review: Cher Speaks — Part One

November 25, 2024
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Now 78, Cher has written a compellingly candid chronicle of her early life and showbiz career, up until her move into the movies, which will be told in Part Two.

Children’s Book Reviews: Troubles and Triumphs

November 22, 2024
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In a time when qualities such as empathy and caring for others are more important than ever, these books can help children better understand the lives of others.

Book Review: “The Absinthe Forger” — Betrayal Among Worshippers of the Green Fairy

November 12, 2024
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There was, after all, something Faustian in the prospect of an elixir that promised to reveal glimpses of the divine while simultaneously burning pits of fire in the seeker’s brain.

Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

November 4, 2024
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In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

Book Review: Shannon Bowring’s Compellingly Large Visions of Small-Town Life

November 3, 2024
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Shannon Bowring is a wonderfully wise and compassionate writer, exquisitely alert to the varieties of human experience that exist at the end of the 20th century.

Arts Advocacy: Sign Our Petition! An Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders

October 27, 2024
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It is time for some fierce pushback from the artistic community and lovers of the arts to Generative AI Leaders.

Book Review: Tamas Dobozy’s “Stasio” — Noir Fiction That is Haunted and Haunting

October 21, 2024
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“Stasio” is an exercise in noir fiction with the intellectual depth we expect from our best writers, compounded by the lyricism of Tamas Dobozy’s style, crisp dialogue, wit and humor, and well-drawn characters.

Book Review: The Fascinating Life Story of a Great American Composer — Samuel Adler

October 17, 2024
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Samuel Adler, now 96 and still composing, has released an updated version of his rich, entertaining, and sometimes gripping memoir of a life well lived.

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