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A Blog About Books and Reading
Auletta employs the benefit of hindsight to produce a portrait of a brash, egotistical Hollywood outsider whose power allowed his monstrous side to flourish without consequence for too long.
"If I could go back, I might tell younger me, 'Don't do this.' "
On his release, Woodfox, who staunchly maintained his innocence in the murder he was accused of, dedicated himself to educating others about systemic racism.
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.
"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.
Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.
The feminist and cultural critic's 1981 polemic reads as though it were written yesterday.
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.
"Even though I've been living in this country for twenty-two years and this is for all intents and purposes my home – it's where I intend to live the rest of my life – elsewhere is this notion that one or two pieces are missing," says Abdelmahmoud.
The New York Times feature writer shows in carefully argued detail that the Sandy Hook hoaxers exist in a direct line with QAnon and the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.