Stories By David Lida
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Iran
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
June 16, 2020Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
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African American
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
June 6, 2020The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
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African American
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
May 31, 2020For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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African American
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
May 30, 2020Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
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African American
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
May 29, 2020When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
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China
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
May 27, 2020Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
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Biography
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
May 24, 2020If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
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Biography
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
May 23, 2020At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
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Biography
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
June 7, 2010It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
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African American
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 19, 2010Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
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