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Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.

Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 11:57 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I know some of the Texas newspaper music writers were very enthusiastic about Nanci Griffith. It is possible that that...
Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 11:40 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)"Hearts in Mind" was the title of one of her later albums. Feeling like she knew "our heart"... How beautifully...
Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 11:30 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I always knew she had some devoted fans, but it is remarkable to read how she was a light in...
Richard Magahiz September 20, 2021 at 8:27 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I too was a very big fan of Nanci's. In the very early days of the Web I was part...
Nicole Veneto September 20, 2021 at 8:00 pm on Film Feature: A Dispatch from Boston’s Last Video Rental StoreOh my goodness, young Gen-X'ers are people who are newly in the forties., born between 1977 and 1983 presumably. I...