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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Robert Caro’s Factual Obsession

April 17, 2019April 19, 2019 Patrick Beach 0 Comments Ina Caro, LBJ, Master Of The Senate, Robert Caro, The Years Of Lyndon Johnson, Working

A New Memoir Reveals the Research Secrets of Our Greatest Political Biographer

NON-FICTION

‘The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper’

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Hallie Rubenhold, Jack the Ripper, The Five

The Ripper Gets His Long-Overdue #MeToo Moment

Business NON-FICTION

Sex Sells

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments David Kushner, Gary Kremen, Match.com, Sex.com, Stephen Michael Cohen

How the Creator of Match.com Found His Soul Mate in a Con Artist

Music NON-FICTION

The Man Who Loved Kurt Cobain

April 3, 2019April 4, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Bumping Into Geniuses, Courtney Love, Danny Goldberg, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, MTV, Nirvana, Serving the Servant

Nirvana’s Former Manager Remembers Kurt Through Rose-Colored Glasses

NON-FICTION

The Second Time As Farce

April 1, 2019March 31, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan, Silk Roads

Historians Should Learn From History and Not Try to Predict the Future

NON-FICTION

The Lives of the Queer Poets (and Scientists)

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Emily Dickinson, figuring, Margaret Fuller, Maria Popova, Rachel Carson

Great Accomplishments and Tragic Personal Histories Collide in Maria Popova’s ‘Figuring’

NON-FICTION

When Doves Cry

March 19, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments

‘Mama’s Last Hug’ Conclusively Shows That Animals Have Feelings Too

NON-FICTION True Crime

No Stone Unturned

March 18, 2019March 20, 2019 Patrick Beach 0 Comments Baltimore, Black Hawk Down, David Simon, Killing Pablo, Laura Lippman, Lyon Sisters, Mark Bowden, The Last Stone

Mark Bowden Knows Who Killed Pablo. But Who Killed the Lyon Girls?

Memoir NON-FICTION

‘This Never Happened’

March 6, 2019March 5, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Liz Scott, This Never Happened

A Funny and Wildly Original Memoir About Growing up With a Narcissistic Mother

NON-FICTION

We’re Not Living On Planet B

March 5, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments climate change, global warming, Mike Berners-Lee, Planet B

The Climate is Changing and All I Got Was This Lousy Book

NON-FICTION

I Got Yer Hillbilly Elegy Right Here

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Patrick Beach 1 Comment Appalachian Reckoning, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance

Appalachia’s Ongoing Literary Reckoning

Memoir NON-FICTION

She Persisted

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Educated, Tara Westover

‘Educated’, an Education in Education, Mostly for the Uneducated

NON-FICTION

Prepping for a Post-Roe America

February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Handbook For A Post-Roe America, Robin Marty, Roe Vs. Wade

A Handy Resource For Anyone Who’s Paranoid…or Already Threatened

NON-FICTION

It’s the Final Countdown

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Adam Higginbotham, Midnight In Chernobyl

The Black Comedy of ‘Midnight In Chernobyl’

FILM Sports TELEVISION

Representation Matters

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments André Holland, Arli$$, Ballers, Elite Sports Agents, Entourage, High Flying Bird, Jerry Maguire, Robert Wuhl, Steven Soderbergh, Taraji P. Henson, The Rock, What Men Want

Why are We So Obsessed With Elite Sports Agents?