Another Brooklyn To read anything by Jacqueline Woodson is to expect the unexpected, not only for the stories themselves but for the imaginative way they
Love is lovelier the second time around. It is also true of books. Case in point, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the May read for
The Engineer’s Wife, a novel of the Brooklyn Bridge. A 21st -century novel about a late 19th and early 20th-century brilliant wife. I’m beginning to
Someone It is not every book one reads that leaves you almost speechless, but Someone by Alice McDermott did just that to me. This is a
THE MARE For those of us who know what it’s like to love horses, The Mare is so much more than another story about a
WELL-READ BLACK GIRL CONFERENCE As the news broke about the successful fundraising of the Well-Read Black Girl Conference and Festival to be held on September
THE FERAL DETECTIVE When I read Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 riff on dark detective fiction, Motherless Brooklyn, I was not amused. In fact, I found the
The vortex exists, and poetry is one place to find it. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a single image triggers a memory from
Haley Tanner has written a small gem of a debut novel in Vaclav & Lena. If you have ever loved the girl or boy next
What would happen if poets conquered America? The answer to this question lies in a clever collection of poems that maps of the United States.
If you don’t dress in black or hang out in coffeehouses, why would you want to read poetry? I mean really, you squeaked through all
Our lives are infused with more poetry than we may think—recurring memories that unfold like refrains; the analogies we turn to as we struggle to understand
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II Did you ever wonder how WW II soldiers filled up the
“Among Thieves?” Shouldn’t it be “Honor Among Thieves?” Nope, author John Clarkson got it right; there is no honor among the thieves and other lowlifes
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – A book for the fearless. Maya Angelou’s poem Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, accompanied by Basquiat’s contemporary art, makes for
Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law Despite his occasional demurs, Dershowitz is a celebrity lawyer who relishes the attendant fame, media venues
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