Books
The takeaway from “The Devil’s Treasure” is that everything under consideration in this unique project is somehow beautiful, even when seemingly pained.
These three books celebrate different kinds of gifts: two from nature — and one that comes via the post office.
Strangely, Paul Landis makes no acknowledgment of the implications of the evidence he attests to, namely that neither Lee Harvey Oswald nor any other single gunman could have acted alone.
Will Hermes reveres Lou Reed’s music, and he expounds on his love in this voluminous, well-researched biography.
Jack Kerouac’s best work is often driven by a hunger for spiritual nourishment: the soul food his protagonists occasionally find in friendships, in jazz, in oceanic moments of oneness.
“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.
These essays and poems present incarcerated men and women as nothing more or less than our fellow humans.
Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”
Cockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.
Book Review: “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class”
Dan Canon provides not only the statistics but powerful stories to demonstrate the extent to which plea bargaining has bankrupted the justice system
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