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Review: ‘The Californians’ include a painter, a film director and an art thief

Fiction: Brian Castleberry’s epic is an exuberant romp through the art of the American Century.
March 8, 2025
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Review: Critic probes connection between books and depression in ‘Bibliophobia’

Nonfiction: In a vibrant yet uneven memoir, critic Sarah Chihaya offers insights throughout and an urgent message about suicide.
February 24, 2025
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Looking for answers in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis

Nonfiction: New book sifts through the wreckage there.
February 17, 2025
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The story behind the singalong holiday classic that shall reign forever and ever

Nonfiction: “Every Valley” traces the history of the creation of Handel’s “Messiah.”
December 12, 2024
Baroque expert Jeanette Sorrell will conduct Handel's "Messiah" with the Singers and the SPCO.

What does your car say about you? ‘The Driving Machine’ knows.

Nonfiction: An eminent architecture writer brings his singular eye to a dazzling history of car design.
October 4, 2024
drawing of automobile from "The Driving Machine"

Review: You might think a history of tax havens would be dull but ‘The Hidden Globe’ is ‘luminous’

Nonfiction: A brilliant expose of international tax havens reveals how the ruling class shapes our world.
October 4, 2024
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Expect this history of trail-blazing Black communities to be in the hunt for big prizes

NONFICTION: “The Black Utopians” weaves dazzling memoir with little-known political history.
September 25, 2024
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What does your car say about you? ‘The Driving Machine’ knows.

Nonfiction: An eminent architecture writer brings his singular eye to a dazzling history of car design.
October 4, 2024
drawing of automobile from "The Driving Machine"

Review: You might think a history of tax havens would be dull but ‘The Hidden Globe’ is ‘luminous’

Nonfiction: A brilliant expose of international tax havens reveals how the ruling class shapes our world.
October 4, 2024
photo of author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Expect this history of trail-blazing Black communities to be in the hunt for big prizes

NONFICTION: “The Black Utopians” weaves dazzling memoir with little-known political history.
September 25, 2024
photo of author Aaron Robertson
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