Thursday, March 14, 2024



Jonathan Kozol Fought School Inequality for Decades. Here’s One Final Plea.

With his latest, and last, book, the 87-year-old writer refuses false optimism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/us/jonathan-kozol-school-inequality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

 


Keith Haring brought art to the streets. Did he sell out in the process?

Brad Gooch’s new biography, ‘Radiant,’ captures the life of the iconoclastic artist who helped to define 1980s New York before dying at 31

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/12/radiant-keith-haring-biography-brad-gooch-review/

Sunday, March 10, 2024


Calvin Trillin on the golden age of American reporting

A collection of work by a giant of New York journalism is both a joy and a lesson, particularly on objectivity and its limits


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/the-lede-review-calvin-trillin-new-yorker-times

Friday, March 8, 2024

 


Tracing the sprawling, complicated boundaries of ‘LatinoLand’


Marie Arana’s new book draws on her own experience and hundreds of interviews with others who have contemplated the meanings of Latino identity


https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/08/latinoland-marie-arana-review/

Thursday, March 7, 2024



Why Evan Gershkovich Is on the Cover of TIME

We set out to tell the story of his arrest and imprisonment, and its impact on his family, friends, and co-workers in the months to follow.


Tuesday, March 5, 2024

 


The Freaks Came Out to Write review – how the Village Voice changed American journalism

Tricia Romano’s entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/27/the-freaks-came-out-to-write-tricia-romano-review-how-the-village-voice-changed-american-journalism