Glenn C. Altschuler

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‘The Stadium’ may make us think of baseball and hot dogs but it’s also a source of inspiration and strife

NONFICTION: New book looks at the many ways we use huge public spaces.
August 13, 2024
photo of author Frank Andre Guridy
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A legend, an estrangement and a reconciliation in ‘Cornbread’ Harris bio, ‘Deeper Blues’

LOCAL NONFICTION: Andrea Swensson traces a career that’s well into its seventh decade.
August 5, 2024
photo of author Andrea Swensson and subject of her book, musician Cornbread Harris
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Big names like Joan Didion and Carrie Fisher pop up in glittering memoir ‘The Friday Afternoon Club’

NONFICTION: Actor/producer Griffin Dunne (”After Hours”) tells tales of murder, sibling rivalry and redemption.
June 5, 2024
photo of author Griffin Dunne
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Biography details what ‘Rulebreaker’ Barbara Walters did to get to the top

NONFICTION: Susan Page follows books about Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Bush with one about the pioneering broadcaster.
April 16, 2024
photo of author Susan Page
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‘3 Shades’ shows how Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans made the biggest jazz album ever

NONFICTION: James Kaplan’s book asks whether the success of “Kind of Blue” corresponded with the death of jazz.
February 27, 2024
black and white photo of author James Kaplan
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Review: 'Differ We Must' depicts a president — Abraham Lincoln — under pressure

NONFICTION: Steve Inskeep summons a pragmatic, moral politician who listened to, learned from and worked with his critics.
September 29, 2023
Steve Inskeep, photographed for NPR, 13 May 2019, in Washington DC.
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Review: The 'Queen of the Court' struggled to get what she was owed in Depression-era tennis

NONFICTION: An informative, more-dispiriting-than-inspiring biography of Alice Marble, largely forgotten tennis star of the 1920s and '30s.
August 10, 2023
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Review: 'King: A Life' takes a fresh, unvarnished look at a civil rights icon

NONFICTION: A flaws-and-all examination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of inequality and war.
May 12, 2023
Books

‘3 Shades’ shows how Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans made the biggest jazz album ever

NONFICTION: James Kaplan’s book asks whether the success of “Kind of Blue” corresponded with the death of jazz.
February 27, 2024
black and white photo of author James Kaplan
Books

Review: 'Differ We Must' depicts a president — Abraham Lincoln — under pressure

NONFICTION: Steve Inskeep summons a pragmatic, moral politician who listened to, learned from and worked with his critics.
September 29, 2023
Steve Inskeep, photographed for NPR, 13 May 2019, in Washington DC.
Books

Review: The 'Queen of the Court' struggled to get what she was owed in Depression-era tennis

NONFICTION: An informative, more-dispiriting-than-inspiring biography of Alice Marble, largely forgotten tennis star of the 1920s and '30s.
August 10, 2023
Books

Review: 'King: A Life' takes a fresh, unvarnished look at a civil rights icon

NONFICTION: A flaws-and-all examination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of inequality and war.
May 12, 2023
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