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Book Review: “Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair” — More Relevant Than Ever

May 25, 2024
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We should take courage from this splendid work about how truth and justice triumphed over stupidity and prejudice, and how much the loyalty and love and determination of one remarkable family could accomplish a hundred and thirty years ago.

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Book Review: “Faraway the Southern Sky” — Portrait of a Young Revolutionary

May 24, 2024
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“Faraway the Southern Sky” is an extraordinary literary achievement because it makes real and present the scuffling life and education of the very young man who grew up to become Ho Chi Minh.

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Book Review: Finding Well-Paid Work After Graduation — The Luck of the Draw

May 20, 2024
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Readers interested in understanding how typical Americans transition from college to work should savor this provocative book.

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Book Review: “The Jazzmen” — Three Private and Public Lives, Intertwined

May 12, 2024
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In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.

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Book Review: “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis”

May 10, 2024
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The history of U.S. policy on immigration might charitably be described as shameful.

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Author Interview: Caroline Leavitt on her Novel “Days of Wonder”

May 9, 2024
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“I wanted to explore the real nature of guilt and innocence, and why it isn’t easy for society to forgive.”

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Book Reviews: Something Wickedly Imbecilic This Way Comes

May 8, 2024
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Two books chase the devil’s tail as they examine America’s evil ways.

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Book Review: “Cold Nights of Childhood” — Impossible to Set Aside or Put Out of Mind

May 6, 2024
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What sets “Cold Nights of Childhood “wonderfully apart from today’s autofiction genre is the narrator’s absolute lack of self-pity. There is no blame-game, and no lugubrious victimhood.

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Author Interview: Clea Simon on Her Latest Mystery Novel — “Bad Boy Beat”

May 3, 2024
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Clea Simon’s latest mystery, “Bad Boy Beat,” features the memorable heroine Em Kelton, a tough Boston journalist who can mix with the hard-boiled reporters and hard-living cops on her beat — none of whom want to realize that she happens to be a brilliant detective.

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Book Review: “At the Vanguard of Vinyl” — Illuminating and Frustrating

April 28, 2024
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Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.

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