Book Reviews

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.”

'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

'Breakup/Breakdown', a collection of poetry by Charles Jensen. Can one find hope in poems of heartbreak and loss?

A personal view of the twentieth century's most infamous dictator.

Lavinia Greenlaw’s far-ranging introduction 'Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland', reads sometimes like the flight of a bumblebee. Fascinatingly brilliant in each place that it lands, it succeeds in making the reader long to know more of William Morris.

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.

Han Kang again explores violence and human suffering, this time through the eyes of six characters at different points in their lives.

'March: Book Three', by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. The congressman’s award-winning graphic novel trilogy reaches its absorbing conclusion.

New novel by James Besaw, The Ultimatum, asks biggest “what if?” about terrorists in U.S.

In a tale from childhood, 'Twisted' by Bonnie M Hennessy, takes you on an alternate journey to a dark and bleak tale of love and courage, filled with revenge and regret as well as a strength of spirit. Looking at the story of Rumpelstiltskin's rage and sadness, you follow The life of Aoife and a different path of how the lives of two such differing characters really came to being.