California Review of Books

Simon & Schuster Review by Walter Cummins Valerie Gillis closes the message to her mother that begins the novel Heartwood with this crucial memory: “But for a while, in your…

What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian Eno and Bette A.

Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington

The Problem You Have by Robert Garner McBrearty

The ISMs Series, Edited by Larry Warsh

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