Books
A young Hasidic woman addicted to Internet porn? Oy vey, who knew?
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This coffee table book scan of women’s history is visually striking and consistently informative.
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A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
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Poet Helena Minton deserves our attention; her verse is grounded in a close observation of nature and a love of language.
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Emmanuel Carrère’s novel powerfully satirizes intellectual pretension but at the expense of engaging storytelling.
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At its best, Steve Reich’s Conversations is illuminating and engaging, an honest discussion of the creative process by one of the major composers of our times.
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A lot of history is jammed into this book, but the author manages to ruminate in an informative and engrossing way on 50-plus years of pop music.
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.
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What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.
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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
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