The Library of America’s ‘African American Poetry: 250 years of Struggle and Song’ is stunning in its historic and literary…
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Edmund White is one of the most prolific and esteemed writers of his generation of post-liberation, gay writers. His novels…
The cover of Harald Jähner’s ‘Vertigo’ has scantily clad dancers silhouettes scaling a ladder under a silvery threshold – a…
‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is Edwin Frank’s vigorous study of the evolution of the 20th century novel and the novelists who redirected…
David Greenberg’s new biography of John Lewis includes a photograph of the Congressman at age 80, on site at the…
The Whitney Museum exhibit Edges of Ailey is breathtaking in its artistic scope and documentation of the life, work and…
André Aciman’s ‘Out of Egypt’ made his reputation when it was published in 1995 and he followed it up with…
‘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…