- Rod Carew’s ‘One Tough Out’ hits home run as baseball memoir BOOK REVIEW “ONE TOUGH OUT” By Rod Carew, with Jaime Aron (Triumph Books, $26.95) Grade: A Any doubt that the Twin Cities has a special place in baseball player Rod Carew’s heart will be erased upon learning that he brought his daughter, Michelle, back to …
- George Floyd, Hong Kong, SpaceX: Your Weekend Briefing (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Outrage over the death of George Floyd has incited a wave of demonstrations and unrest across the country. From the streets of Minneapolis, …
- The Inevitability of Tragedy review: a life of Henry Kissinger for our Trumpian times Only two of America’s secretaries of state are foreign-born, and their presence in Foggy Bottom is owed to the downfall of the Weimar Republic. As the Third Reich rose, a teenage Henry Kissinger fled Germany for upper Manhattan. Ten years later, Madeleine …
- The Strength of Femininity May 31, 2020 Book Review…, News 0 Book Review… Book: Gathering the Waters Author: Keisha-Gaye Anderson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD ‘Gathering the Waters’ is a compendium of insightful writings, a hagiography, no less, to motherhood. Invariably, the past …
- Book review: 'White as Milk and Rice' - Unknown Heritage It is the tendency of popular media and culture to homogenise our ways of life. Movies show a single India that speaks Hindi and dances at lavish weddings. Newspapers barely distinguish between an Indian city and village life. Amidst all of this, cultures …
- Young adult book review: Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufmann and Jay Kristoff Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufmann and Jay Kristoff, published by Oneworld Publications, £7.49 What is the book about? Aurora Rising is the first book of the upcoming Aurora Cycle series, a science fiction series with drama at its heart. The story switches …
- Remembering Sally Byrne Woodbridge Sally Woodbridge with Chuck Byrne who designed Woodbridges’ San Francisco Architecture guide. Photo: Courtesy John Parman The architectural historian and journalist Sally B. Woodbridge, a longtime resident of Berkeley, died of natural causes on Nov. 26, …
- Minneapolis, Hong Kong, Lady Gaga: Your Friday Evening Briefing (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. The former Minneapolis police officer who pinned George Floyd has been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The arrest of Derek …
- A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen In his new book, “Enemy of All Mankind,” Steven Johnson writes about the first global manhunt, which occurred near the end of the 17th century, after the notorious English pirate captain Henry Every …
- Book review: The discomfort of evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Even before the pandemic, attention was being lavished on novels to cheer us up. The biggest trend in fiction was for optimistic works such as Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, books which speak of the power of resilience, of …
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