by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
Now in paperback (and PEN Award-nominated): Hanya Yanagihara’s voyage into the forests of Micronesia unearths a tribe of immortals, whose fountain of youth is shipped to America with deadly, fantastical results. A tale of magic, culture clash, and...
by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
When Boris Pasternak published his famed novel Doctor Zhivago, it was banned in his native Soviet Union and made the Pasternak family into targeted enemies of the KGB. Peter Finn and Petra Couvee’s cat-and-mouse Cold War history carries the volatile suspense of...
by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
Max Egremont’s explosive history of “The World War I the Poets Knew” finds the likes of writer-soldiers Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, and Siegfried Sassoon on the frontlines, in the hopes of understanding how the battlefield sacrifices they made...
by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
How behind-the-scenes experts and artists defy a culture of narcissism.
by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
The story of a gallery owner’s life is a study in surfaces.
by bertbaby | Jun 25, 2014 | Book Reviews
From Abstraction to Welt, a new lexicon attempts to corral some truly Big Words.
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