Books
Nathan Go’s debut novel is entertaining, emotionally resonant, and raises provocative questions about forgiveness, redemption, and love.
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.
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The problem is that the factoids and bits of trivia supplied by Act Naturally rarely tie back to any larger narrative, or serve any discernible purpose other than to be cataloged.
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Historian Jackson Lears assembles sightings of a world that’s changeable, mutable, and filled with animalism, vitalism, or whatever else you want to call it. But what’s the point?
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In The Flounder, John Fulton is clearly at the top of his game. His prose has that rare thing — a sense of intimacy.
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Vivid descriptions of the oppression activists fighting for democracy in Hong Kong have faced – and continue to – elevates this novel above the usual YA bromides.
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In place of coherent, in-depth analysis, the author has provided us with a series of short profiles on various individuals, some of them familiar, others less so. The tack presents problems that can’t be overcome.
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The biography is a workmanlike introduction, valuable because it brings a measured understanding to Osip Mandelstam’s life and poetry as well as to the horrific decades he lived through.
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What makes Scout Tafoya’s book a radical departure from earlier studies is his in-your-face challenges to John Ford’s character and his racial politics.
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Book Review: Searching for “Truth and Repair” — Asking Rape Survivors For Their Vision of Justice
For real change to happen, argues Judith Herman, “crimes of dominance and subordination would need to be approached as a matter of public health as well as public safety, with prevention as a primary goal.”
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