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Book Review: Post Black: How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity by Ytasha L. Womack
An important book for anyone concerned with African-American identity.
Read More »Book Review: A Certain “Je Ne Sais Quoi”: The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English by Chloe Rhodes
Although technology has added clever new words to our culture, the origins of many common English words have ancient roots.
Read More »Book Review: Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
Were "apocalyptic dread and conspiratorial fever," not disco and platform shoes, the hallmark of the 1970s?
Read More »Book Review: The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark
Lucy Jo was having a tough time getting her foot into the fashion industry's door until Wyatt offered her a deal she just couldn't pass up.
Read More »Book Review: Pride and Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Revisit Jane Austen's classic enhanced (yes, enhanced) with zombies, in more ways that initially meets the eye.
Read More »Book Review: Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World’s Greatest Directors by Robert Schnakenberg
For those who enjoy tawdry escapism and tales from "Hollywood Babylon," this book is best taken with a grain of salt.
Read More »Book Review: Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman by David A. Wolff
Concise biography demonstrates how Seth Bullock was much more to history than being sheriff of Deadwood.
Read More »Book Review: Lustrum by Robert Harris (Conspirata in the US)
Politics is a lonely, desperate life, that ends only in failure. Something to look forward to!
Read More »Book Review: You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life With The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead And Other Wonderful Reprobates by Sam Cutler
The Sixties, The Stones, The Dead, And Altamont
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