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…
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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…
Mendell Station: A Novel by J. B. Hwang
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Among the many things I liked about Mendell Station by J.B. Hwang is its realistic portrayal of working-class life. Delivering mail is a working-class occupation;…
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
Vintage International Essay by Brian Tanguay Joseph Stalin died in 1953, the same year The Captive Mind by the Polish poet, writer and diplomat Czeslaw Milosz was published in the…
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In A Case of Mice and Murder, Sally Smith introduces Sir Gabriel Ward KC, a King’s Counsel who lives and works in the Temple, fifteen…
Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920 – 1970 by Pollyanna Rhee
University of Chicago Press Review by Brian Tanguay The city of Santa Barbara, California, has always traded on its unique location, tucked snugly between the Santa Ynez mountains and the…