Book Reviews

Nowhere Ho!

Posted on Jan 11, 2012

Nowhere Ho!

Nothing says the Holocaust like Anne Frank's diary. On July 18, 1945, after his return to Amsterdam from Auschwitz, Otto Frank received an answer to his newspaper advertisement from two sisters who had seen his daughters die in Bergen-Belsen...

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Let There Be Light

Posted on Oct 10, 2011

Let There Be Light

Over 185 years since Nicéphore Niépce took the world’s first photograph—a photogravure of Pope Pius VII in 1822—the process of photography continues to develop in unanticipated ways. From heliography and silver chloride to Adobe Lightroom and digital single-lens reflex cameras, pioneers would scarcely recognize the 19th-century industry they helped to define.

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The Convert by Deborah Baker

Posted on Sep 27, 2011

The Convert by Deborah Baker

The following is an excerpt from a book review of Deborah Baker's The Convert at The Faster Times: "In 1962, Maryam Jameelah immigrated to Lahore, Pakistan, completing the renovation of her identity and forging her discomfited childhood into a spiritual and psychological paradox."

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Nevermind Your Mistakes

Posted on Sep 27, 2011

Nevermind Your Mistakes

Tyler McMahon’s debut novel relives and re-examines a celebrated musical era: grunge rock from America’s Pacific Northwest.

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