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Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

October 25, 2021
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Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

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Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

October 23, 2021
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

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Book Review: “The Sum of Us” — Why We Are Divided

October 21, 2021
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The Sum of Us shows how the economic and political powers-that-be have exploited race to split Americans into warring tribes trapped in a zero-sum game fighting for what’s left after the top 1% take 40% of the wealth.

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Book Review: Sarah Ruhl’s “Smile: The Story of a Face”

October 16, 2021
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This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient, and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl’s next play.

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Book Review: Rock and Roll Fantasy — Getting the Balance Right

October 11, 2021
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On many levels, Hold Me Down is terrific. Its power lies in the vitality of Clea Simon’s prose and her insider savvy.

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Author Interview: Vermont’s John Killacky — At the Service of Art, Critique, and Civic Conversation

October 11, 2021
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“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”

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Book Review: “Magnetism” — Attraction and Repulsion, the Endless Puzzle

October 9, 2021
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Writer Jacqueline Gay Walley has become adept at probing the unpredictable interaction of self and others, transformations that imprison as well as liberate.

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Book Review: Man Ray — He Could Have Been a Contender

October 7, 2021
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The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.

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Book Review: “The Mirror and the Palette” — Women’s Self-Portraits in Courage

October 4, 2021
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By skillfully balancing the historical and the imaginative, The Mirror and the Palette is not only a delight to read, but inspirational.

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Book Review: A Mother Lode of Imagery and Information

October 2, 2021
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This eye-opening collection of photo-essays, essays, and interviews offers a kaleidoscopic view of a subject that is too often hidden, treated as a private concern rather than one of vital public interest.

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