Review | ‘Keywords’
John Patrick Leary traces the meaning and usage of four dozen words.
Brian Tanguay
Recent Stories
Hendrika de Vries’s Moving Memoir
Amsterdam native’s story of her wartime experiences resonate in a world of violence, bigotry, and hatred.
Review | ‘The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote’
Book captures the complexity of a seminal moment in American history.
Review | ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ Is Cogent Analysis of Racism
Author Ibram X. Kendi poses that economic, political, or cultural self-interest drives racist policymakers, not hateful immorality.
Review | Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’
Author draws from history that is as well-documented as it is shocking for new novel.
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.
