Unsettling, at times surreal, A Brutal Design mines the potential power of art and architecture. Novelist Zachary C. Solomon skillfully demonstrates how each shapes our perceptions. Chilling and profoundly relevant.
Not exactly a barn-burner, Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell rebrands some original ideas brilliantly depicted in the author’s earlier work, The Tipping point, published in 2000. Gladwell’s quirky hypotheses will undoubtedly engage the next gen of readers with some oddball…
The Sequel, by author Jean Hanff-Korelitz, should never be read just before bedtime. It’s just too darn scary! But of course if you love acerbic satire, a smart-alecky, anti-heroine a biting side commentary about fiction writers and political wrangling in publishing companies, or relish…
Perhaps best described as a primer on the fate of German Jews Suchman’s novel may not win prizes for its literary turn of phrase or inventive figures of speech. Stumbling Stones, however is a potent blend of history and fiction best suited for anyone uninitiated in Holocaust literature.
If you are not into reading four-hundred page tomes try Chutzpah Girls, a gorgeously illustrated book of one-page biographies about a hundred ordinary women transformed into extraordinary super-powered heroines. A book that begs to be shared with mothers, daughters, and Bubbies alike, the…
