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The point of Bob Dylan’s project is emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us.
Kick the Latch (the title refers to what is done to open the starting gate in a horse race), through its plain and spare authenticity, is a powerful and impressive success.
“As the old saying goes,” writes author and former prosecutor Valena Beety, “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
These are compelling stories about the trials and tribulations of dynamic, working-class characters.
Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.
An author with a deep affinity for and knowledge of movies and how they’re honored tells us all about Oscar.
Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
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.
A young Hasidic woman addicted to Internet porn? Oy vey, who knew?
Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”
At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
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