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True Crime
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
May 26, 2025It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 21, 2025Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
May 14, 2025In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
May 13, 2025There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
Iran
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
April 13, 2025Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
African American
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
April 2, 2025The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
March 27, 2025For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
March 25, 2025Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
March 25, 2025When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Economics
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
March 22, 2025Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
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