Greenfield's notions of the actions of subjective experience are based on something external to itself: “While the mind makes sense of the world about you, identity enables the world to make sense of you.”
Read More »Genres
‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois – An Appreciation
Gone for over half a century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lives on through his thought and his prose. A new edition from Restless Books offers an excellent opportunity to broaden our perspective on questions of race in America by increasing our understanding of racism's history and sociology, enlightened by one of the country's most creative minds.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice’ by Susanna Reich
'Stand Up And Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice' by Susanna Reich is a picture book intended for children in grades 3 through 7. But, like the music and message of Pete Seeger himself, it is really a book for everyone
Read More »Book Review: ‘Breakup/Breakdown’ – Poems by Charles Jensen
'Breakup/Breakdown', a collection of poetry by Charles Jensen. Can one find hope in poems of heartbreak and loss?
Read More »Interview: Tom Carter Author of ‘Nashville: Music and Murder’
Interview with Tom Carter author of 'Nashville: Music and Murder': "Find your creative versus commercial groove, and ignore assessments like mine or anyone else's."
Read More »My Top Ten of the Current State of DC Entertainment
Let's get rid of any drama first - there will be no Batman vs. Superman (because it sucked).
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: ‘Hitler’ by Shigeru Mizuki
A personal view of the twentieth century's most infamous dictator.
Read More »Book Review: ‘A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz’ by Göran Rosenberg
Railroad cars brought the author's father and mother to Auschwitz, but railroad cars also brought them from Auschwitz, eventually to the town where they would try to start fresh and raise a family. His book is a loving, questioning, aching letter from a onetime little boy to the father the Nazis took from him.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Human Acts’ by Han Kang
Han Kang again explores violence and human suffering, this time through the eyes of six characters at different points in their lives.
Read More »Book Review: ‘March: Book Three,’ Graphic History by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
'March: Book Three', by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. The congressman’s award-winning graphic novel trilogy reaches its absorbing conclusion.
Read More »