Osprey Review by Brian Tanguay Unless you happen to be a historian of the 15th and 16th centuries, or extraordinarily well-read about that time period, I’d bet you’ve never heard…
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Dickens in Brooklyn by Jay Neugeboren
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins I met Jay Neugeboren at the book launch for a mutual friend after knowing about his writing for years. We shook hands and had a…
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums by Dolly Jørgensen
Chicago Review by David Starkey I have to admit that as I was reading through Dolly Jørgensen’s Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinctions in Museums, I sometimes wondered what, exactly, I…
Gerhard Richter, edited by Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota
Citadelles & Mazenod Review by David Starkey Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of Gerhard Richter. Like anyone who has visited art museums over the years, I’ve seen plenty…
Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays by Joe Bonomo
Georgia Review by David Starkey At the bottom of the record sleeve of the original vinyl LP pressing of the Rolling Stones’ 1969 album Let It Bleed is a message…
Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory by John Garrison Marks
University of North Carolina Press Review by Brian Tanguay The legend of George Washington is deeply etched into the American historical consciousness. The Virginia native is revered as the father…
Leila & Khaled by Nyla Matuk
Anansi Review by Brian Tanguay Leila, a fifty-something woman from Montreal, is part of a delegation visiting Palestine, her first trip to her father’s homeland. Leila is unmarried, an academic…
The Norton Lectures Centenary Editions
Harvard Review by David Starkey The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University are, if not the most famous, then certainly among the most famous lectures in American letters. Established…
The Keeper by Tana French
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Although Tana French has won awards for crime fiction and mystery/thrillers, including an Edgar, The Keeper is little like our expectation of a mystery novel.…
The Irish Goodbye by Beth Ann Fennelly
Norton Review by David Starkey Back in 2018, I gave a rave review to Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. I was quite taken with her poet’s takes…