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Book Review: “Call Me Cassandra” — The Beauty of Fait Accompli

January 28, 2022
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You know how the story is going to end, but it can only unfold if you take Cassandra’s hand and follow where she knows to go. Believe that she knows the way.

Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

January 27, 2022
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From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

Book Review: “Ghost Geographies” — Dark but Magical Stories of the Dispossessed and the Stateless

January 26, 2022
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Tamas Dobozy is an anarchist in the best sense of the word: it’s not chaos he’s enamored of but a way of life untrammeled by political oppression, bureaucratic horrors, legal absurdities.

Book Review: “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” — Innovative History of a Female Anti-Nazi Resistance Leader

January 25, 2022
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What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.

Book Review: “From a Distant Relation” — Drowning in Yiddish

January 24, 2022
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What is evident throughout these superb tales of turn-of-century shtetl life is their authenticity.

Book Review: “About Time” — Clocks That Made History

January 24, 2022
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David Rooney’s thesis in About Time is provocatively ironic: clocks, through their ever-increasing precision and regularity, are the instruments of constant change.

Book Review Round-Up: Why Art Books, and … Why Now?!?

January 23, 2022
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Can somebody tell me, tell me please, why there’s suddenly such a profusion, a torrent… almost a glut, of significant art history books entering the marketplace right about now?

Television Interview: “Poetry in America” Host Elisa New — “Poetry is in all of us”

January 21, 2022
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Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.

Book Review: “Home Reading Service” — Beyond Empty Words

January 19, 2022
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In Home Reading Service the literary and the illiterate rub shoulders, and we are given a vision of people tentatively emerging from behind walls.

Short Fuse Podcast #49: “Race for Tomorrow” — On the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

January 18, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard and journalist Simon Mundy talk about his book “Race for Tomorrow,” which examines the implications of climate change, from the micro to the macro.

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