Book Review
Trash
Interfaith chaplain Cedar Monroe’s "Trash" is a case study in the US’s rampant poverty problem. Discussing poverty with particular emphasis on poor white Americans, Monroe’s book is focused on the homeless and housing-insecure...
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Book Review
Interfaith chaplain Cedar Monroe’s "Trash" is a case study in the US’s rampant poverty problem. Discussing poverty with particular emphasis on poor white Americans, Monroe’s book is focused on the homeless and housing-insecure...
Book Review
by Isaac Randel
Cultural critic David Masciotra’s newest book "Exurbia Now" is a timely appraisal of an American political landscape marked by dangerous isolation. Drawing on trends in demographics, city planning, and social life, Masciotra describes...
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A loyal group of translators find their allegiances tested when their author disappears in translator Jennifer Croft’s winking satirical novel "The Extinction of Irena Rey". The novel adopts a twisting conceit. It is the translated...
Book Review
by Isaac Randel
"Voices of Reason" is an accessible, short introduction into the deeper world of political philosophy. Psychotherapist Bill Entzminger’s "Voices of Reason" is a primer on the rudiments of political thought that cuts through the tangle...
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In C. A. Castle’s engaging novel "The Manor House Governess", a queer tutor is enmeshed in the intrigues of the family that employs him. To survive bullying at school for his perceived effeminacy, Bron, who has been abandoned by the...
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"The Spirituality of Dreaming" repackages dreaming as a life-enhancing, revolutionary act resulting in access to fonts of sacred energy. Kelly Bulkeley declares that dreaming is the most democratic and accessible of all the spiritual...
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Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death sentence she avoided. In college, she and her roommate survived...
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The underappreciated horrors, hardships, and sacrifices endured by Vietnam War soldiers are honored in the memoir "I Left Myself in Vietnam". US Army veteran Nam Sam’s candid memoir "I Left Myself in Vietnam" reflects on his wartime...
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