Biographer June Cummins considers the first All-of-a-Kind Family book, published in 1951, as groundbreaking and Sydney Taylor as “one of the first writers of multicultural literature for children.”
Yale-University-Press
Book Review: “Art and Faith” — Creating Revelatory Beauty
Art and Faith should be widely read — its delightful wisdom and clarity underlines our culture’s desperate need to make things new.
Book Review: “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” — A Significant Life
Biographer James Kaplan was aided by the assistance of Irving Berlin’s two elder daughters, and that makes this biography particularly valuable.
Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to the Life and Work of Alfred Stieglitz
The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.
Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture
In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.
Book Review: “Physics & Dance” — The Intelligence of Movement
The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing — an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics’ theories and abstractions.
Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion
This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
Book Review: “A Short History of Ireland” — A Concise Past
Gibney’s volume offers a wide range of readers with an introduction to the complexities of Irish history, including questions of what exactly constitutes the national history itself.
Book Review: Patti Smith’s “Devotion” — Not Devoted Enough
The short volume promises a glimpse into Patti Smith’s intuitive creative process — but disappoints.