University of Chicago Press Review by Brian Tanguay Why do Americans revere the Constitution? Why do many of us believe that this founding document, written by mortal and fallible men…
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Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East by Gaar Adams
Dzanc Books Review by Brian Tanguay The Gulf region of the Middle East is home to the largest number of migrants per capita of any place on the planet. Many…
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra by Ericka Verba
University of North Carolina Press Review by Brian Tanguay Most of what I’ve learned about Chile has come from reading novels by Chilean writers, studying the country’s political fortunes since…
Libra by Don DeLillo
Viking Essay by Brian Tanguay Returning to a book I read twenty or more years ago is usually revealing, both about the book and myself. The book is the same,…
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Random House Review by Brian Tanguay The wheels of justice turn slowly. Hadi Matar, now 27, was sentenced this past February for his August 2022 knife attack on Salman Rushdie…
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield
Grand Central, New York & London Review by Rasoul Sorkhabi David Attenborough, the world-famed BBC broadcaster and writer of nature documentaries, celebrated his 99th birthday on May 6th this year.…
Cheesecake: a novel by Mark Kurlansky
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I thoroughly enjoyed Mark Kulansky’s new novel, Cheesecake, set in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s. West 86th street to be precise.…
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut
Knopf Review by Brian Tanguay The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took his…
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
Ballantine Review by Gabriel Tanguay Ortega I always look forward to the release of a new novel by Isabel Allende, as I already know what it has in store—lyrical, descriptive…
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness by Michael Koresky
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Before reading Sick and Dirty, queer representation in Hollywood wasn’t a subject I’d given much thought to or had occasion to study. By the time…