André Aciman’s ‘Out of Egypt’ made his reputation when it was published in 1995 and he followed it up with…
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‘The Showman’ by TIME Magazine correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the first year of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and into…
1945 In British-colonized Malaysia, Cecily is a mother of four and the dutiful wife to her husband who is a…
The Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and LiberationBy Raquel WillisSt. Martin’s Press$29; hardcover; photos www.stmartins.com Black transgender writer…
If a friend approached you and said, “hey, let’s talk about mapping the ocean floor,” you might (politely) yawn. Sounds…
“Two Roads Home” by Times of London journalist Daniel Finkelstein recounts the fates of his Jewish grandparents and his parents,…
Music historian Harold Pollack’s comprehensive biographies on American composers including Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Marc Blitzstein. This year he has…
Where is music going, and where, for that matter, is history going ? Was the ground taken by the “Panzer…
Q: For the readers–how do you define the term “Sacred Intimate”. The goal of sacred intimacy is to facilitate self-knowledge…
In “The Peach Seed,” its author Anita Gail Jones wonderfully and lovingly immerses readers in the world of Fletcher Dukes…
Over the last several years, I’ve read and reviewed more than a handful of AIDS-related memoirs — Peter Staley’s Never…
Aiden Levy’s “Saxophone Colossus” is an engrossing portrait of jazz musician Sonny Rollins. Rollins, now 92, stopped performing a decade…
“Nightgcrawling” by Leila Mottley is not only a truly stunning debut novel from a very young author, accomplished beyond her…
A Life of Picasso IV’ The Minotaur Years is art historian John Richardson’s fine line portrait of the revolutionary artist…