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Sep 18, 2020

Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...

Sep 13, 2020

Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost

Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.

Sep 12, 2020

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his...

Sep 4, 2020

Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young advocates equipped to work...

Jul 7, 2020

Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."

Jul 3, 2020

Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a fascinating, disturbing, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful book.

Jun 27, 2020

Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."

May 14, 2020

Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.

May 13, 2020

Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin

Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.

May 10, 2020

Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.

Apr 23, 2020

Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.

Feb 16, 2020

Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

The most fascinating parts for me were the late-in-life reflections from those who had been involved in the IRA's brutal and unrelenting...

Feb 15, 2020

Review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After

This book is Yip-Williams's powerful farewell to her family, but it's also valuable for anyone considering meaning in their own life.

Jan 23, 2020

Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Vance shares his unlikely, circuitous route to an emotionally and financially stable adult life. In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares...

Jan 1, 2020

Review of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life... by Tracy Walder

I love a peek at a secret world, and here Walder offers fascinating glimpses of her life as a CIA and an FBI agent.

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