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The World of Paul Johnson

February 1, 2023February 6, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern

The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day

The Real Dahl

January 25, 2023January 30, 2023 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Matthew Dennison, Patricia Neal, Roald Dahl, Teller of the Unexpected, You Only Live Twice

New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life

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Does He Stutter?

January 18, 2023January 20, 2023 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Joe Biden, John Hendrickson, Life On Delay

In his memoir ‘Life On Delay,’ John Hendrickson beautifully gives voice to the struggles that all stutterers face

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Ten Things That Made 2022 Less Scary For Me

December 29, 2022January 2, 2023 Rebecca Kurson 2 Comments Dual, Help! I Wrecked My House, House of the Dragon, Karen Gillan, Kimberly Akimbo, Matt Smith, Mudlark'd, Spelling Bee, Tom Stoppard, Walter Tevis

Our last and maybe most definitive list

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Our Favorite Books of 2022

December 27, 2022January 2, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Alan Moore, Asylum, Dan Chao, Edafe Okporo, Geoff Dyer, Illuminations, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Egan, Katie Gutierrez, Mark Yakich, Michael Twitty, Sleepwalk, The Candy House, The Last Days of Roger Federer, The Memory Librarian

BFG’s esteemed critics offer up their picks

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‘Our Man in Tokyo’

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 Wendell Jamieson 0 Comments Our Man in Tokyo, Steve Kemper

A biography of the golf-loving American ambassador to Japan who tried his best to prevent Pearl Harbor

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QT Speculates

December 5, 2022December 8, 2022 Lary Wallace 1 Comment Cinema Speculation, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino

A speculative look at Tarantino’s ‘Cinema Speculation’

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Downbeat

November 29, 2022 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Dangerous Rhythms, English, Frank Sinatra, jazz, Louis Armstrong, T.J

‘Dangerous Rhythms’, a new book about jazz and the underworld, spends too much time with familiar names

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Our Indie Bookstore, Like All Indie Bookstores, Is a Force for Good

November 28, 2022February 4, 2023 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Old Florida Book Shop, Rock and Roll Globe, Sea of Reeds, The Book House, Virginia Woolf

On Cyber Monday, remember that if you want quirky bespoke stores to exist, you need to support them

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‘Ink, Blood and Linseed Oil’

November 22, 2022November 18, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Drew Friedman, Ink Blood and Linseed Oil, Juxtapoz, Last Gasp Press, Robert A. Williams

What is art? Robert Williams’s collected essays from the culture-busting ‘Juxtapoz’ magazine still challenge our preconceptions

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Sad Young South Korean Lady

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

‘I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki’, an intimate look at personal therapy sessions in a culture that disdains therapy

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‘Filmed in Brooklyn’

October 26, 2022October 28, 2022 Elizabeth Hazard 0 Comments Filmed In Brooklyn, Margo Donohue, Moonstruck, Paul Auster, Saturday Night Fever, Smoke, Spike Lee, The Warriors, Wayne Wang

An interview with the author of a book about America’s most cinematic neighborhood

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Jann Wenner and the World He Made

October 4, 2022February 6, 2023 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Annie Leibovitz, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Greil Marcus, Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner, Jon Landau, Mick Jagger, Ralph Gleason, Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stones, Tom Wolfe

Publisher’s memoir reveals a private, ambitious guy at the center of everything awesome

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Stop Trying to ‘Solve’ the Death of Anthony Bourdain

October 3, 2022October 25, 2022 Jake Harris 0 Comments Anthony Bourdain, Asia Argento, Charles Leershen, Down and Out In Paradise, Kim Severson, Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, Roadrunner

New unauthorized biography hops aboard the exploitation express

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Eliot Ness Vs. Cleveland’s Jack the Ripper

September 21, 2022September 26, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments American Demon, Daniel Stashower, Eliot Ness

After Al Capone, the ultimate untouchable took on a notorious serial killer

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