Clever and Vigorous Our Age of Anxiety Leads to Many Pleasures
Clever, vigorous, Our Age of Anxiety, Henry Israeli’s latest collection, won the august White Pine Poetry Prize last year. Perhaps […]
Clever, vigorous, Our Age of Anxiety, Henry Israeli’s latest collection, won the august White Pine Poetry Prize last year. Perhaps […]
The traditional formula for a gothic tale tends to go something along the lines of “woman + atmosphere = gothic”. […]
I was a little annoyed with the New York Times last week. In their January 20, 2020 rave review of […]
So Speak The Stars offers the rare chance for a reader to reflect alongside the writer. Written almost entirely in second […]
A beguiling experience, Kacen Callender’s Queen of the Conquered is at one and the same time a vacation on a tropical island, a voyage confronting the historical experience of slavery, and a delicate and nuanced exploration of the contemporary issue of what it may mean to be “woke.”
Historian and native Philadelphian Timothy J. Lombardo contextualizes and explains Rizzo’s political career and his supporters’ motivations in his 2018 book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics.
These suggestions grab the imagination and keep it engaged.
To what extent would you go to preserve life? What about quality of life?
Young’s memoirs include a secondary focus on local — and to a lesser degree, national — politics, specifically as the candidates supported labor or other progressive causes.