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.
Brian Tanguay
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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.
‘The Heart Crossways’ by James Claffey
The novel mixes terror, the small joys, and the ache carved in a boy’s heart when his father doesn’t return his love.
Pico Iyer’s ‘Autumn Light’
The author’s new book is a meditation on time, family, loss, and being fully present in the moment.
Sandra Tsing Loh’s ‘The Madwoman in the Volvo’
The Author writes about the chaotic, bewildering, emotional and physical changes that come with menopause.
