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Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 5/8/2024
Comic Book· 1 hour agoIt isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just about everything from DC and Marvel with the important books from the likes of Image, Boom, IDW,...
Book review: Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children’
The Virginian-Pilot· 1 hour agoHad anything resembling “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children” actually existed in the days of antebellum plantation culture, it would have been forbidden fruit: Few enslaved people ...
Book review: A deep dive into one of science’s great unknowns: Extraterrestrial life
The Bulletin· 12 hours agoOf all the unknowns in science, the greatest may be extraterrestrial life. Despite stunning advances...
Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships
Associated Press· 2 days agoWho means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection...
Kathleen Hanna is a troubadour unafraid to speak out
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoWhile artist and activist Kathleen Hanna stood out as a leading figure in the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement, she actively worked against the role. What...
Book Review: Coming-of-age meets quarter-life crisis in Fiona Warnick's ambitious debut 'The Skunks'
Associated Press· 2 days agoUsually when I see a book described as an “ambitious debut” I read it as a cop-out. “The Skunks” is...
Military Book Review Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Strategy Page· 4 hours agoWhile it was clear that the final weeks of World War II had been reached, as Evan Thomas so cogently documents in his riveting account, it was not at all obvious at the time exactly how the ...
Boozy Book Review: Manny Shwab And The George Dickel Company
The Auto Channel· 1 day agoBack in 2020, I was invited by a former university professor of mine to give a talk at his congregation’s virtual Havdalah service about the Jewish influence in American Whiskey and Kosher cocktails ...
Democrats Just Took the Lead In This Poll Average and No One Noticed | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 19 hours agoIn last Tuesday’s newsletter, charting Joe Biden’s clearest Electoral College path, I noted his recent improvement in national and some swing state polling averages from Real Clear Politics ...
Book Review: 'City In Ruins' Completes A Masterful Don Winslow Trilogy
The Greeneville Sun· 12 hours agoAs "City in Ruins" opens, former mobster Danny Ryan is a silent partner in two Las Vegas casinos. He is fabulously rich but wants more. Why? Because money is power,