Book Review
The Humbling and Other Poems
Via formal verses, the poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" conveys a gentle, generous world view. Written in traditional formats, the entries of Robert J. Tiess’s poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" concern...
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Lambda
In David Musgrave’s fascinating novel "Lambda", a woman is enmeshed in conflicts between surveillance police, a synthetic person, and genetically human Lambdas. “A lambda function is a small anonymous function”: this computer...
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All We Have to Believe In
"All We Have to Believe In" is a sprawling historical novel that’s concerned with individual accountability, collective responsibility, and empathy. Set in the period between the World Wars I and II, Jeffrey J. Lousteau’s historical...
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(P)luck
"(P)luck" is a memorable story of the work of two brothers on some of the twentieth century’s most crucial public health and bioethics issues. Alfred and Blair Sadler’s memoir "(P)luck" is about their groundbreaking collaboration in...
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They Don't Pay Me To Say No
They Don’t Pay Me to Say No captures the human moments of making a movie or television show via a fascinating series of anecdotes. Dean Goodine’s They Don’t Pay Me to Say No, a memoir about working as a film and television prop...
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Heimat
In the historical novel "Heimat", German immigrants face new challenges in the United States in the 1930s, shifting their understandings of “home.” In Paul Marzell’s historical novel "Heimat", nostalgic longing for their lost...
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I Can Take It From Here
Lisa Forbes writes with power and insight about recovering from trauma, incarceration, and subsequent injustices in her memoir I Can Take It from Here. Forbes served fourteen years in prison for the murder of a former lover. She spent...
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Child
Judy Goldman relishes memories of a loving relationship in her memoir "Child" while also struggling to reconcile herself to the systemic racism of the Jim Crow South. In midcentury South Carolina, Goldman blossomed under the care of...
