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Poetry Review: “Time Is a Mother” – Grieving through Language

Ocean Vuong’s new collection of poetry is a dazzling investigation of love and loss, inspiring both nostalgia and release.

By: Henry Chandonnet Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Henry Chandonnet, Ocean Vuong, Poetry, Time is a Mother

Book Review: “Harrow” — The Relentless Dystopia to Come

The world of Harrow is a Mad Max dystopia for intellectuals. It’s Bladerunner without the tech.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Harrow, Joy Williams

Book Review: “Hard Rain” — For Dylan Completists Only

It’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Folk, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Alessandro Portelli, Bob-Dylan, Hard Rain

Book Review: “Work Pray Code” — Managing and Deploying Spirituality in Silicon Valley

A thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.

By: Anna Gibson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anna Gibson, Princeton University Press, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Television Review: Ken Burns’s “Benjamin Franklin” — Gauzy Soft-Core Patriotism

Corporate anti-racism – Bank of America is a major sponsor for the documentary – causes Ken Burns to pull his punches.

By: Dan Lazare Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: American racism, Bank of Boston, Benjamin Franklin, Dan Lazare, Ken Burns, PBS

Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural Literacy

Given the current state of play, any attempts to enrich our knowledge of the built environment are valuable.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: David Hare, Mark Favermann, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Straight Line Crazy, The Borders of Chinese Architecture

Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else

David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David D'Arcy, David Thomson, Disaster Mon Amour, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: The Climate Crisis and the “Race for Tomorrow”

If there is one book to pick up that will get you interested in what is happening to our climate, Race for Tomorrow is it.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Crisis, Ed Meek, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy

Book Review: “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language” — Finding Multitudes of Meaning

To always be listening more and to therefore always be listening differently is of course the very nature of fandom, and to call What’s Good the work of a fan is not a putdown.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, City Lights Publishers, Daniel Levin Becker, rap, rap lyrics, What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language

Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Mecca, Susan Staright

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