Author Interview: Richard L. Hasan on “The Real Right to Vote”
"We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think."
View ArticleBook Review: “Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs”
This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks...
View ArticleBook Review: “Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” — Darkness Visible
"Hollywood’s Imperial Wars" is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.
View ArticleBook Review: “Witness: An Insider’s Narrative of the Carceral State”— A Voice...
Lyle C. May reminds us that large numbers of men sentenced to death have been exonerated, and that at every level the apparatus of the carceral state is erratic at best and dramatically biased against...
View ArticleChildren’s Book Reviews: Gardens Galore!
Get ready for spring with these children’s picture books.
View ArticleBook Review: “Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir”— A Rehash
The best part of the Silver/Ursini book is the padding, the last forty pages in which the two authors go past "Double Indemnity"'s release to contextualize it within the generic stream of “film noir".
View ArticleChildren’s Book Reviews: Finding Connections — Three Picture Books for Kids
A trio of picture books about people establishing nurturing links.
View ArticleBook Review: “Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter’s Last Word”— Better Than...
Throughout "Out of Left Field," Stan Isaacs revisits events he covered decades earlier, some of them as significant as the World Series, some of them as silly as frog jumping.
View ArticlePoetry Review: “Catullus: Selected Poems”— A Comfortable Intro to an...
Translator Stephen Mitchell serves Catullus best with the poems that don't demand cleverness, where the sentiment is at least seemingly direct.
View ArticleBook Review: Maya Arad’s “The Hebrew Teacher”— Balancing Conflict and Compassion
This disturbing and beautiful book concerns itself mostly with Israelis living in America, and Maya Arad has brought her characters and their stories to life in meaningful and unforgettable ways.
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