Verso Review by Brian Tanguay It’s late November in Norway and the days are cold and short. A woman and her dog occupy a small cabin in a remote, forested…
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Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards
W. W. Norton & Company Review by Brian Tanguay The failure of banks and savings and loan institutions has a long history in the United States. Most people know something…
Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal
Anansi Review by Brian Tanguay Three Palestinian teenagers are hanging out on the streets of Jerusalem. They insult one another as teenage boys do, smoke cigarettes, and enjoy ice cream…
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr
University of North Carolina Press Review by Brian Tanguay By the mid-1970s, Charles Diggs Jr. was arguably one of the most powerful members of the House of Representatives. The most…
Loneliness & Company by Charlee Dyroff
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The world Charlee Dyroff creates in her novel, Loneliness & Company, is familiar and strange at the same time. New York City has become a…
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement by Brandon M. Terry
Belknap/Harvard Review by Brian Tanguay Americans generally frame the Civil Rights era as beginning with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and ending with the assassination of…
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered a Nation – by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking Review by Mark Mansour Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” is a compelling and vivid chronicle of the most notorious financial crash in history, skillfully blending drama and meticulously researched history…
A Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward by Sally Smith
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a…
Karl Marx In America by Andrew Hartman
University of Chicago Press Review by Brian Tanguay As a very young man I attempted to read Capital by Karl Marx. Because I lacked the intellectual tools and experience of…
Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia by Brian Barth
Astra House Review by Brian Tanguay In June 2024, the United States Supreme Court ruled that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere…