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True Crime
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
September 18, 2026It 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
September 14, 2026Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Music
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
September 6, 2026In 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
September 5, 2026There 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
August 7, 2026Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
July 26, 2026The 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
July 21, 2026For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
True Crime
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 19, 2026Dominique’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
July 19, 2026When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 17, 2026Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
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