by bertbaby | Jan 16, 2014 | Book Reviews
January 16: “[M]odern humans consume disproportionately more resources than other vertebrates, including humans who had simpler lifestyles.”
by bertbaby | Jan 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) “wrote with ecstasy—highly informed and intricate—about ecstatically complex music”, says Richard Brody of this raucous collection of essays on modern jazz giants (Coltrane, Monk, Sun Ra and more) and their sonic...
by bertbaby | Jan 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
Crimes of the heart throw a perceptive woman into a suspenseful courtroom drama.
by bertbaby | Jan 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
Remembering and celebrating voices raised in protest.
by bertbaby | Jan 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
In Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow chronicled the reaches of American enterprise and ambition. Now he ventures to new terrain: the internal mind, and a cognitive scientist’s memories of his traumatic life.
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