Book Review | ‘Dorothy Parker in Hollywood’ by Gail Crowther
Exploring the entertainment industry exploits of a leading literary light.
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Book Review | ‘Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy’ by Katherine Stewart
An example of how outstanding journalism provides context and connection on the rise of a political movement.
Book Review | ‘The Glutton’ by AK Blakemore
A novel based on a wisp of truth, certain to make you rethink your world and your relationship with it.
Book Review | ‘No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk’ by Gavin Butt
Follow a select band of art school students through the 1980s British punk-rock movement and what happens next.
Book Review | ‘I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are’ by Rachel Bloom
The “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star’s memoir is both LOL funny and grimace-making.
Book Review | ‘The Big Green Tent: A Novel’ by Ludmila Ulitskaya, Translated by Polly Gannon
A Russian epic in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, set in the period after Stalin’s death.
Book Review | ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture’ by Tricia Romano
A mostly oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly paper — and this paper’s Editor in Chief just happened to hold that same title at the Voice.
Book Review | ‘Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age’ by Cecelia Tichi
For bitter or for worse, weaving history in a fun if boozily arranged line.
Book Review | ‘Last Acts’ by Alexander Sammartino
Father-son satire takes place at a gun shop in a “godforsaken Phoenix-adjacent strip mall.”
Book Review | ‘California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline’ by Rosanna Xia
An environmental reporter takes a look at people who are doing their best to deal with the realities of rising sea levels.
