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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Book Review: The Spymaster of Baghdad (2021). Margaret Coker.

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This excellent account by a notable U.S. war correspondent tells the personal stories of several families and individual Iraqis caught up in...

Book Review: Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World (2021). Kimberly Nicholas (PhD).

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This is a different kind of climate crisis book, which focuses more on the personal impacts of climate change: how we think about it, our gr...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Book Review: The Woman Who Smashed Codes (2017). Jason Fagone.

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This is one of several recent books about Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her husband William, the "parents" of the NSA and modern Am...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Movie Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018). Movie, Netflix.

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This is the lovely and moving story of a young woman in the post-World War II London literary and social world of 1946, based on a 2008 book...

Book Review: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016). Jane Mayer.

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Jane Mayer, the author of this essential book, is a gifted staff writer for The New Yorker , as well as the author of several other titles, ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Movie Review: Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020). Disney +

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This unusual concert video of Taylor Swift caught my attention toward the end of 2020.   I had not been a long-term Taylor Swift fan, but it...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

TV Review: Ted Lasso, Apple TV+, Seasons 1-2.

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This offbeat comedy series, which takes place in the English midlands, is based on a hilarious premise.   A wealthy older Englishwoman (play...

Book Review: Girls and Sex (2016). Peggy Orenstein.

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A mother and journalist explores the contemporary challenges, ideas and behaviors of young girls and women navigating early sexual experienc...