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…
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The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work by Sam Quinones
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s not often I start a review with, “I loved this book,” but in the case of The Perfect Tuba by Sam Quinones it’s the…
Saving Ourselves From Big Car by David Obst
Columbia Business School Publishing Review by Brian Tanguay When I lived in Tokyo many years ago, my street was just wide enough for two vehicles to pass within inches of…
Without Precedent: How Chief Justice John Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights by Lisa Graves
Bold Type Books Review by Brian Tanguay Most Americans don’t spend much time thinking about the Supreme Court or how its rulings impact their lives, until the court strips away…
The World After Gaza: A History by Pankaj Mishra
Penguin Press Review by Brian Tanguay Pankaj Mishra is a writer of capacious erudition which he has demonstrated in eight books of non-fiction, two works of fiction, and dozens of…
Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation by Marla A. Ramirez
Harvard Review by Brian Tanguay Immigration has been a contentious issue in the United States for a long time, and at numerous points in American history has motivated intense passions…
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay A recent joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call, revealed that civilians account for 83 percent of the death toll in Gaza.…
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them by Aziz Rana
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…
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…