Other Press Review by Brian Tanguay Francesca Albanese is a brave woman, a living example of a public figure who follows her most deeply held convictions wherever they lead, regardless…
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Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I have never read a novel in which the protagonist searches for someone to take their life. Meet Agnes Maurer, follow her over the course…
Washington Is Burning: Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump by Andrew Cockburn
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Andrew Cockburn opens this timely collection by recounting the exploits of his distinguished relative, Admiral Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy, during the War…
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay What do sea otters, abalone and sardines have to do with the settling and development of California? What can these creatures reveal about the age-old…
Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Is it inevitable that the sins of fathers be visited upon their sons? Perhaps not, but sons haunted by their fathers is one of the…
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden
One Signal Review by Brian Tanguay I met Jane Borden at the inaugural Santa Barbara Literary Festival. As I listened to her talk about her book, Cults Like Us, I…
I Hear A New World by Alan Moore
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had to read Alan Moore’s The Great When twice to fully appreciate it. At the time I wasn’t at all familiar with Moore’s body…
The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works by David Harvey
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay David Harvey has been writing about, interpreting and teaching Karl Marx for decades. In The Story of Capital he ambitiously attempts to explain Marx’s key…
The Art of Becoming a Citizen: a memoir by Gail Godwin
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s the autumn of 1961 and twenty-four-year-old Gail Godwin is in New York City, living temporarily at the Martha Washington Hotel on East Thirtieth Street.…
The Man Who Stopped The Sultan: Gabriele Tadino & The Defence Of Europe by Edoardo Albert
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…