Books
Christopher Seufert’s “Memento Gorey” offers an intimate, cluttered, sometimes illuminating portrait of the artist’s final years, but its unedited conversations rarely penetrate the mystery at their center.
A new edition of “The Man with Night Sweats” brings the poet’s formal restraint, domestic intimacy, and unsparing attention to individual loss into sharper focus.
A new annotated translation of “Past & Thoughts” restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to American readers.
Robert Dattoli’s “Boomer Madness” recounts a picaresque journey through sex, drugs, work, protest, and the cultural upheavals of postwar America—but its reflections on the generation often prove less compelling than its adventures.
Two lively picture books invite children to discover the creativity, collaboration, and wonder behind the books they love.
By Ed Meek Joshua Frank offers an incisive account of the environmental and human costs of “green” development — even if his sweeping skepticism leaves readers wondering what practical climate action should look like. Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future by Joshua Frank. Haymarket…
This book is the best travelogue you’ll ever read about a terrible place you’ll never want to visit but want to experience vicariously.
Peter Ackroyd’s breezy biography captures the poet’s divided nature—but leaves his political and poetic reversals largely unexplored.
In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.
In a new novel set in a 1970s New Jersey suburb, the Belmont-based author revisits childhood, racial segregation, masculine stoicism, and a past that cannot be remembered honestly without its shadows.
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