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Book Review: Singing the Boomer Blues — Buddhist Version

As cultural critique, Curtis White’s Transcendent comes across as a modest if chilly yip of Zen resignation.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: '60s culture, Buddhism, Curtis White, Melville House, Poetry, zen

Book Review: Andrea Barrett’s Magical “Natural History”

Although science is Andrea Barrett’s springboard, she is writing fiction about the people who do scientific research and teach it: memorable people who have hearts and secrets and feelings and hopes and dreams and goals.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrea Barrett, Natural History, Roberta Silman

Book Reviews: Black Activism in a Quartet of Children’s Books

Given the increasing backlash against books that promote equity and diversity, and the fact that many schools still spotlight Black history in February, here is a sampling of the many excellent Black history and biography books for children published in the past few years.

By: Cyrisse Jaffee Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World, Black Activism, Black History, Black Lives Matter, Born on the Water, Sarah Roberts, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

Book Review: “The World and All That It Holds” — A Remarkable Achievement

Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is simply dizzying, filled with texture, startling imagery, language in multiple tongues (keep Google within reach!), and it succeeds in most every respect.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Aleksandar Hemon, Drew Hart, fiction, The World and All That It Holds

Book Review: Love, Death, the Beatles, and James Bond — Britain, for Better or Worse

There’s no question the Beatles come out of John Higgs’ superb book Love and Let Die looking far better than James Bond. Love tends to play better than death and it’s easier to root for working class underdogs than Establishment snobs.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Beatles, British Psyche, James-Bond, John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles

Book Review: Film Director Preston Sturges — The Reluctant Auteur

This incisive, compelling, and spirited analysis of the screwball maestro’s life and oeuvre illuminates the art of an overlooked genius.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Crooked But Never Common, Preston Sturges, Stuart Klawans

Book Review: “The Constitution in Jeopardy” Wrong Diagnosis and Solution

This is the Catch-22 of American constitutional politics. We the people are free to propose any structural reform we want except that they’ll all suffer the same fate: strangulation at the hands of petty politicians in Washington or the state capitals.

By: Dan Lazare Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Peter Prindiville, Russ Feingold, The Constitution in Jeopardy, The US Constitution

Book Review: Two Powerful Books from Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa — A Liberal Citizen of the World

Engagingly written by a limpid stylist, The Call of the Tribe marshals a corps of sparkling intellectuals who have in common first-hand experience of dictatorship, a commitment to individual freedom, a belief in reasonably regulated free-market economies, and a rejection of the political zealotry of religion or the doctrinaire left and right.

By: David Meghan Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Conversation in Princeton, David Mehegan, Mario Vargas Llosa, The Call of the Tribe

Poetry Review: Hannah Sullivan’s “Was It For This” — The Harsh Reality of Our Transience

The structure, plot, themes, tone, and diction of Was It For This all combine to consecrate the ordinary alongside the exceptional.

By: Leigh Rastivo Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Hannah Sullivan, Leigh Rastivo, Was it For This

Book Review: “Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon’s Eye” — Not Your Classic Renaissance Man

This splendid biography of Leon Battista Alberti, beautifully produced, with a rich selection of well-placed and well-reproduced illustrations, vividly portrays one of the most complex and fascinating figures in a complex and fascinating time, one whose preoccupations are entirely relevant today.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Casper Pearson, Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon’s Eye, peter-Walsh, Reaktion Books

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