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…
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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…
The Accidentals: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had never heard of the Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel until her brilliant collection of short stories, The Accidentals, fell into my hands. Had I…
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Knopf Review by Brian Tanguay As I read Omar El Akkad’s scathing polemic exposing the moral shortcomings of the Western world order, I was reminded of the Fire Next Time…
Ley Lines: A Novel by Tim Welsh
Guernica Editions Review by Brian Tanguay What I know of the Klondike gold rush comes from reading “The Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” by Jack London in my…
No Bars to Manhood: A Powerful, Personal Statement on Radical Confrontation with Contemporary Society by Daniel Berrigan
WIPF & STOCK Review by Brian Tanguay Where does courage come from? Why do certain people sacrifice their liberty, and sometimes their very lives for a principle, while others remain…
Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington
Norton Review by Brian Tanguay The world of elite and oligarchic money is shrouded in secrecy. A series of leaked documents — the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Pandora Papers…
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America by Madeleine Baker
Harvard University Press Review by Brian Tanguay I read Make Your Own Job after hearing Madeleine Baker, a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University, on a podcast…
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Transit Books Review by Gabriel Tanguay Ortega I don’t like the amount of time I spend on social media, though it does turn me on to books I might never…