Heliotrope Review by Lisa Del Rosso A Ribbon for Your Hair: Loss. More Loss. And How We (Sort of) Went On by Stephen Policoff, is a memoir about the loss of…
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Mexico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality by Enrique C. Ochoa
University of Arizona Press Review by Brian Tanguay Mexico has a well-earned reputation for culinary excellence, and foodies all over the world recognize its local and regional food cultures. But…
A Place in the World by Bill Gaythwaite
Pittsburgh Review by David Starkey The most recent winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the premier awards for excellence in the short story, is Bill Gaythwaite, a…
Time Traveling by Kate Deimling
Cornerstone Review by Paul Willis Kate Deimling’s debut collection of poetry travels through the reader’s mind like a stray clock, chiming the hours past, present, and future in a harmony…
The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence by Terence Keel
Beacon Press Review by Brian Tanguay When I think of people who died while in state custody the first name that comes to mind is Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old Black…
Orlando: A Graphic Novel by Virginia Woolf and Susanne Kuhlendahl
Helvitiq Review by David Starkey Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography, a novel about a male Elizabethan aristocrat who, at the age of 100, turns into a woman, has inspired a…
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan
Penguin Review by Walter Cummin In A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, Michael Pollan makes an offhand reference to Plato’s cave, “where artificial agents are confined and forced to…
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days by John Darnielle
MCD Review by George Yatchisin If the claim “songs are poetry” drives you batty, John Darnielle’s This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days will give you fits. Darnielle…
The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Being thrust into a different place and time is one of the pleasures of reading fiction. Sometimes the place is inside the mind of a…
Truth And Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope by Daniel Ellsberg, Edited by Michael Ellsberg and Jan R. Thomas
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The late Daniel Ellsberg is perhaps the most famous whistle-blower in American history. When he copied and leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 — a…