New Orleans Comes Alive in City of a Million Dreams
OnI grew up in New Orleans in the 1960s, and I left in 1990. As I write this, it occurs to me that I have spent almost as much time away from the city as I did in it. I miss it,…
Tag: non-fiction
Everyone is Mad at Jonathan Franzen. Again.
OnWe go long stretches without hearing anything from him at all. Then something happens that kicks up his name again, and we all chatter about him. But as it turns out, he really doesn’t care. We’re talking about Jonathan Franzen, of course….
Taking the Food System Back… With Books
OnFood Tank has rounded up 19 books about food and agriculture that explore food policy, nutrition science, healthy eating, food justice, and the challenges of farming. Readers will be able to immerse themselves in new roles as activists, brewers, chefs, farmers, politicians,…
Cookbooks: Pretty Simple Cooking by Sonja and Alex Overhiser
OnIn a culture where fewer and fewer people are able to cook for themselves, cookbooks that can tackle simple food prep and make it easy are more and more important. In Sonja and Alex Overhiser’s Pretty Simple Cooking (DaCapo Longlife) food is…
Bob Woodward’s Fear
OnA week before Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House (Simon & Schuster) is due to drop, the book has reached the top spot on Amazon, while creating a storm on social media and in the news. Since the Washington Post…
Non-Fiction: A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment by Barbara A. Radnofsky
OnDon’t know how we missed this one, but it seems even more relevant today than it did when it was published last September. A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment (Melville) is a non-partisan look at what it takes to bring home an impeachment,…
Non-Fiction: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
On(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery…
Cookbooks: Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley
OnThere have been a lot of vegan and vegan-adjacent cookbooks published over the last decade as many of us move towards a plant-based diet. Obviously some of these books have been better than others. Some are encyclopedic in nature. Others, for better…
Art & Culture: Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation by Terri Favro
OnThis is the year we started paying attention to the shenanigans our tech was getting up to. With dire warnings about the future of AI from the likes of Tesla founder Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking, not to mention the…
Non-Fiction: Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer
On(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…