Review | Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’
Author draws from history that is as well-documented as it is shocking for new novel.
Brian Tanguay
Recent Stories
Speaking with Pico, 2019-20
Author talks with visionaries in his popular UCSB Arts & Lecture series.
Speaking with Pico Iyer
Series’s aim is to bring to the stage people with vision who can offer us possibilities to which we can aspire.
Review | ‘Washington Black’ Takes Reader from Barbados to Nova Scotia to Morocco
Author Esi Edugyan conjures a tale of a precocious slave boy on his way to becoming a free man that is fantastical yet plausible.
Review | ‘Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow’
Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows how Reconstruction laid the groundwork for a vigorous backlash of white supremacist ideology.
Paul J. Willis’s ‘To Build a Trail’
Westmont professor/author ponders love and wonder in his new collection of essays.
Sebastian Maniscalco Interviewed
The comedian talks influences, father figures, and superstardom.
Sam Shepard’s Last Writings
‘Spy of the First Person’ offers observations, ruminations, and memories of what was and is no longer.
‘Why Religion? A Personal Story’
Author Elaine Pagels poses and seeks to answer the most universal questions.
Moshin Hamid’s ‘Moth Smoke’
Author trains a knowing eye at places where the West and the Islamic world intersect and where tradition clashes with modernity.
