The End of Your Life Book Club
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is different in one respect, however. It…
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The Longest War
Consider 9/11 and the Arab Spring of 2011 as opposing bookends to a decade of repression, fear, and fetishized violence. 9/11—the worst terrorist attack on United States soil—killed nearly 3,000…
Loving Day
“In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s house.” As soon as I read this first sentence of Loving Day by Mat Johnson I sighed and…
The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban The Bomb
Unless you are a World War II history buff, you may have missed the fact that the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands played an important role in…
My Beloved World
You would be remiss if you didn’t ask how Justice Sotomayor transcended the adversity of her childhood: dangerous neighborhoods, chronic poverty, an alcoholic father, an unhappy mother. Yet My Beloved World is a memoir suffused with gratitude, generosity, and love.
Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, on a high-stakes project. I actually liked…
The Stick Soldiers
This collection of poems is not light reading but it is necessary reading if we are to heal the wounds of war and shorten the divide in our country.
The Long Emancipation
As discussed by the scholar Ira Berlin in his monograph The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, the struggle for freedom is, at its core, about…
Pigeon-Blood Red
This first novel by attorney Ed Duncan wastes no time proving it belongs in its thriller genre. With likeable, unsavory characters and a fast-paced plot, Pigeon-Blood Red does not disappoint.