Posts Tagged with ‘Books’
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Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
27 Mar 2021Despised 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
11 Mar 2021Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from…
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
06 Jul 2020The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The…
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The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
18 Jan 2020The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly…
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The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
08 Jan 2020In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in…
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
26 Aug 2019Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon…
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The Communist – A Novel from Italy
21 Aug 2019The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of…
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The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
17 Jul 2019I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such…
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Bullshit Jobs — A Review
12 Jul 2019David Graeber’s important new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, begins with “a paradigmatic example” of a bullshit job as…
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The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
16 May 2019When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected…
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
