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Portraits of Genius Friends by Sandra Hochman

Portraits of Genius Friends by Sandra Hochman

by Katie Richards | Dec 13, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs

Every reader of Sandra Hochman’s Portraits of Genius Friends seems to walk away saying “She knows everyone!” and it was true. Hochman, the award-winning writer seems to know just about every important literary and artistic figure in mid-20th century...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 edited by Jane Yolen

Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 edited by Jane Yolen

by Katie Richards | Dec 6, 2018 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Short Stories

The Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 stands out from the many other science fiction and fantasy short story anthologies, not just because the Nebula Awards are the best of the best in genre fiction, but because each anthology is slightly different. Where many anthologies...
Hannibal’s Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome’s Greatest Enemy by John Prevas

Hannibal’s Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome’s Greatest Enemy by John Prevas

by Katie Richards | May 10, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History

John Prevas, a leading contemporary authority on Hannibal, has set out in this book to evoke the figure of Hannibal for the average reader with an interest in history, and in this he is largely successful. He gives enough background on Hannibal that the average reader...
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers

by Katie Richards | Apr 16, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Music, Pop Culture

Ann Powers, the well-known popular music critic that many readers will know from NPR, brings her famous voice to print in Good Booty. The book is a history of American popular music, with particular concentration on the ways that popular music works as a nexus point...
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany

A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany

by Katie Richards | Jan 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military

A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany’s telling of a massacre of Jews during the Holocaust, one horrific act among many, that was carried out with the knowledge and complicity of the author’s aunt – a member of the old Hungarian aristocracy....
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