‘Thomas Mann’s War’ by Tobias Boes chronicles the European anti-fascist, whose books were burned by Nazis F lames of ignorance and hate lit the darkness on a May evening in 1933. The consuming pyre was fed by thousands of heaped books set on fire by Nazis ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joe Martin
In 'Black Radical,' Kerri K. Greenidge pays tribute to the early-20th-century editor and advocate “Black Radical” author Kerri K. Greenidge recalls that she was 7 years old when she first heard about the black civil rights crusader and journalis ...
7 Feb 2020 - Joe Martin
Peter Duffy’s ‘The Agitator’ resurrects a captivating story with remarkable characters An ancient symbol. It can be found in many cultures, known variously as the Fylfot, the Gammadion and Hakenkreuz. In China it’s called the Wan, in Japan the Manji. We k ...
24 Jan 2020 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?’ Bill McKibben Given the terrifying knowledge he possesses, it cannot be easy being Bill McKibben. McKibben writes in an indefatigable effort to alert us all to the ecocatastrophe already ...
27 Sep 2019 - Joe Martin
Book Review | “King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality” by Sylvie Laurent On April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King Jr. took a courageous risk when he proclaimed his oppos ...
30 Aug 2019 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas In 1889, opulent industrialist Andrew Carnegie penned the foundation statement of the modern philanthropic movement. In what was known as “The Gospel of Wealth ...
17 May 2019 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Dopesick’ and ‘Pain Killer’ Dope-wasted in Lee County, Va., a disconsolate farmer told his physician that the powerful prescription drug OxyContin had destroyed his life. He had lost everything. Another Virginian, an unemployed miner, admit ...
4 Jan 2019 - Joe Martin
Book review | “Joe Gould’s Teeth” by Jill Lepore Who is Joe Gould? He has been dead since 1957 but he keeps popping up. There was a time, during World War II, that his name had become known to many, thanks to a splendid profile about the unkempt little ma ...
30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler Winston Churchill was utterly flummoxed. The German Army’s unexpected Blitzkrieg through France was an astonishing act of audacity that drove the Allied armies to the brink of dis ...
14 Sep 2018 - Joe Martin