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Against all odds, these characters test the limits of what were considered “normal lives” at that time. The testing is what gives “The House of Doors” its urgency and intimacy.
One might conjecture that Lena Horne’s career was something like a mink-lined minefield: the promise of wealth and fame went hand-in-hand with the possibility of annihilation.
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.
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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