Book Review | ‘Yellowface’ by R.F. Kuang
Fictional exploration of a fictional exploration of diversity, racism and cultural appropriation doesn’t quite work.
Brian Tanguay
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Book Review | ‘The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market’ by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
‘The Big Myth’ is an exploration of market fundamentalism by the authors of ‘Merchants of Doubt.’
Review | ‘Liberation Day’ by George Saunders
George Saunders’s “Liberation Day” collection is that of a short story master at work.
Review | ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World’ by Tom Burgis
An investigative journalist’s take on dirty money and its impact upon us all.
Book Review | ‘Chilean Poet’ by Alejandro Zambra, Translated by Megan McDowell
The bonds of poetry make for an entertaining work of fiction in “Chilean Poet.”
Review | David W. Blight’s ‘Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom’
The author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography sharpens our understanding of the orator’s life and influence on the nation.
Review | Masha Gessen’s ‘Surviving Autocracy’
Author examines how Donald Trump has come close to ruling America like an autocrat.
Review | Bakari Sellers’ ‘My Vanishing Country’
The author recounts what it means to be Civil Rights activist Cleveland Sellers’ son.
Essay | The Echoes of America’s Past in America’s Present
Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning is essential reading.
Review | Sameer Pandya’s ‘Members Only’
Sameer Pandya skillfully uses elements of the immigrant experience, mid-life crisis, and university life to weave a fictional spell.
