20 posts tagged

life

Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'

Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'

A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.

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Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'

Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'

A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.

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Amy Lin - 'Here After'

Amy Lin - 'Here After'

A lucid account of grief.

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Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'

Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'

Greg Johnson has edited a collection of Oates's letters to himself over a period of twenty-six years.

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Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'

Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'

A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.

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Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'

Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'

Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.

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Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'

Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'

On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.

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Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'

Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'

On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.

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Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'

Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'

A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.

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Laurie Woolever - 'Bourdain - The Definitive Oral Biography'

Laurie Woolever - 'Bourdain - The Definitive Oral Biography'

A radiant mesh of voices paint a wondrous, funny, and harrowing image of Anthony Bourdain.

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Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'

Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'

My review Matzen's straightforward, stuffy, and interesting book about the later part of Audrey Hepburn's life, focusing on her humanitarian work.

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Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'

Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'

My review of Daniel de Visé's straightforward biography of B.B. King.

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Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'

Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'

The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.

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Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'

Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'

An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?

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Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'

Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'

An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.

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Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'

Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'

Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.

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Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'

Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'

A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.

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Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'

Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'

An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.

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Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'

Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'

Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.

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Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.

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