Tag: reviews
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Reviewed by Lindsay Bennett Impressed by America’s semiquincentennial (2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence), Pulitzer-prize profitable writer Beverly Gage provides us This Land is Your Land: A Highway Journey By U.S. Historical past (Simon & Schuster; April 2026). Guided by her perspective as a historian (Gage teaches American Historical…
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Reviewed by Christy Moore In his new ebook Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry, David Streitfeld quotes Julie Solchek, a younger lady who moved from Tucson to Texas to work in McMurtry’s Archer Metropolis bookstore. Solchek mentioned she made the transfer to the city McMurtry portrayed as small minded and dying in…
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Reviewed by Chanda Daniels When Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw stated, “Maybe mother had been proper that backtalking may get me someplace,” I started to replicate on all of the sincere conversations that landed on lower than enthusiastic ears and the place we might be with out them. As a fellow Black lady with an aversion to…
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Reviewed by Ben Winderman Terrence P. Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us: Responsibility, Marriage, and Household (Bloomsbury Educational; Feb. 2026) courageously confronts institutional issues embedded within the tradition/profession of policing. Dwyer, retired from the New York State Police after a 22-year profession experiences upon “the job’s” inherent hypocrisies, its underworld actors, its dysfunctional paperwork, and the…
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Reviewed by Brian Lee Knopp In 2016, writers Ander Monson and Megan Campbell created a music-themed match during which sixty-four songs and their corresponding essays have been pitted towards one another in successive brackets till there was a single winner. They began with March Unhappiness (Unhappy 90s Indie Songs), producing the essays themselves at first,…
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Reviewed by Nan J. Bauer The maths is primary: Meals is life. Withholding it’s energy. It’s an equation we see each day to horrible impact within the present Palestinian and Sudanese genocides; what bombs and bullets don’t kill, hunger finishes, much less effectively and with higher cruelty. We don’t must look onerous to search out…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Though I used to be disillusioned to be taught that I am not America’s beloved fruit, Priyanka Kumar’s hybrid memoir, The Gentle Between Apple Timber: Rediscovering the Wild By way of a Beloved American Fruit (Island Press; Sept. 2025), half botany and zoology, half ecology and local weather, and half loving portrait of the…
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Reviewed by Vicki Mayk As somebody who writes micro essays, I used to be desirous to overview Beth Ann Fennelly’s assortment of micro memoirs, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton, February 2026). I appreciated her first e-book, Heating and Cooling. And now that I’ve learn the newest e-book by a author whose identify has develop into synonymous…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber With over 100 books printed, the Object Classes sequence from Bloomsbury Educational goals to uncover the “hidden lives of odd issues.” These slim paperbacks may be learn in a single or two sittings. They’re all fantastically designed. Books begging to be purchased in print, and delightfully entertaining and academic. An ideal approach…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak On the time of writing (not publishing) this evaluation, it’s formally 206 days till Thursday, August 27, 2026, week zero of the faculty soccer season. If that day isn’t circled in your calendar, then possibly Soccer by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press; January 2026) isn’t for you. Or possibly it’s? Let me…