Darling Days by iO Tillett Wright
★★★★☆ With a cascade of oddballs, theaters, dancers, confrontations, and concussions, iO Tillett Wright opens her tumultuous childhood to us. NYC in the 90s was a brutal place for the poor, and iO shows...
Author: Adam Clark
The Asset by Shane Kuhn
★★☆☆☆ A specter is haunting America – the specter of 9/11. This event, still being unpacked 15 years later, especially haunts Kennedy, an airport security expert who trains TSA agents. Kennedy flies constantly, motivated...
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York’s Chinatown by Scott D. Seligman
★★★☆☆ The underworld fascinates us. Scores of reporters have delved into the seedy midst of those outside the law. Hours and hours of screen-time is dedicated to miscreants, ne’er-do-wells, gangsters and all manner of...
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
★★☆☆☆ Ted, a gay man in Los Angeles, is a cute and quirky, a master of wit. He loves his dog, Lily, an equally witty, aging little dachshund. They spend all their time together,...
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
★★★☆☆ The back cover of Magic and Loss immediately compares author Virginia Heffernan to Susan Sontag and Marshall McLuhan. While admirable in its ambition, these comparisons set rather high expectations that may cast Heffernan...
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
★★★★☆ Adam Phillips is notorious for a couple things. One is that he is a Freudian psychoanalyst, to which I can hear you navigating way already, but don’t do that. The other is that...
The Path by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
★★☆☆☆ Eastern philosophy has been trickling into the Western consciousness steadily since the 60s and has been gaining popularity ever since. But no matter the part of the globe, when it comes to the...
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
★★★★☆ When we read, what are we reading for? A moment of escape? An adrenaline filled rush? Or is each time we open a book, we are on a quest to find something great?...
Peacekeeping by Mischa Berlinski
★★★☆☆ Mischa Berlinski’s primary talent as a writer is his supreme humanity. A new writer on the literary scene, he’s already been marked as one to watch. His second novel, Peacekeeping, is good. Not...
