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Ed Meek

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Ed Meek, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us: An American Conversation” — Tough Talk about Race

Claudia Rankine comes off like a disgruntled but interesting guest at a dinner party who keeps turning the conversation back to subjects that make others uncomfortable but are well worth talking about and seriously examining.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claudia Rankine, Ed Meek, Graywolf Press, Just Us: An American Conversation

Book Review: “How to Be an Antiracist” — A Helpful Step in Overcoming America’s Racial Divide

A more accurate title for Ibram X Kendi’s engaging and compelling book might be:” How I learned to think like an antiracist and how you can too.”

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

Book Review: “Hiding in Plain Sight” — Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump

According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Donald Trump, Ed Meek, Flatiron Books, Hiding in Plain Sight, Sarah Kendzior

Book Review: “The Stakes” — For America, Higher Than You Think

For America to get back on track, “It will take inspired radical leadership, mass organizing, and citizen mobilization of the kind that we see only in America’s finest hours.”

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Robert Kuttner, The Stakes, The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy

Book Review: Common Sense About Climate Change — The Need to Hit the Streets

In this valuable call-to-action, Roger Hallam says we have to recognize that climate change is an emergency and rebel against our extinction.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Common Sense for the 21st Century, Ed Meek, Roger Hallam

Poetry Review: “If Men, Then” — Verse on Present Day Firing Lines

Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Eliza Griswold, Farrar Straus & Giroux, If Men, Then

Book Review: “On Fire” — An Optimistic Take on Climate Change

In this book, Naomi Klein shines a light on the path to a politically and economically just model of sustainability.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Climate Change, Ed Meek, Naomi Klein, On Fire, The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Poetry Review: “One Lark, One Horse” — Michael Hofmann’s Comic Skepticism

Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Michael Hofmann, One Horse, One Lark, Poetry

Poetry Review: “Come Closer and Listen” — Is Brusque and Amusing Enough?

In his new book, poet Charles Simic employs his customary strategies, but he seldom achieves the intensity he once did.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Come Closer and Listen, Ed Meek, Poetry

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