Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to …
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Macho! by Victor Villaseñor
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The …
The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …
The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon …
The Communist – A Novel from Italy
The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of …
The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such …
Bullshit Jobs — A Review
David Graeber’s important new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, begins with “a paradigmatic example” of a bullshit job as …
The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected …
The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where …