Vanessa Veselka’s “Zazen” is set in a city that resembles Portland Della’s mind is on fire. She’s just returned to a city that resembles Portland, putting her career as a paleontologist on hold to wait tables at a vegetarian restaurant called Rise Up Sing ...
20 Oct 2021 - Jay Boss Rubin
‘Thomas Mann’s War’ by Tobias Boes chronicles the European anti-fascist, whose books were burned by Nazis F lames of ignorance and hate lit the darkness on a May evening in 1933. The consuming pyre was fed by thousands of heaped books set on fire by Nazis ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joe Martin
In 'Black Radical,' Kerri K. Greenidge pays tribute to the early-20th-century editor and advocate “Black Radical” author Kerri K. Greenidge recalls that she was 7 years old when she first heard about the black civil rights crusader and journalis ...
7 Feb 2020 - Joe Martin
Peter Duffy’s ‘The Agitator’ resurrects a captivating story with remarkable characters An ancient symbol. It can be found in many cultures, known variously as the Fylfot, the Gammadion and Hakenkreuz. In China it’s called the Wan, in Japan the Manji. We k ...
24 Jan 2020 - Joe Martin
BOOK REVIEW | ‘One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy’ by Carol Anderson Following news reports, it is well known that the Republican Party has attempted to restrict the votes of those they deemed unlikely to vote for Repub ...
3 Jan 2020 - Dave Gamrath
BOOK REVIEW | “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In 1968, Congress passed the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act. The act banned redlining, which had made it difficult o ...
13 Dec 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” by Aaron Glantz What’s your favorite token in Monopoly: the ...
8 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Revolting Prostitutes’ by Juno Mac and Molly Smith Recently, an online site advertising escort services was shut down and its CEO found guilty of promoting prostitution. A major blow against exploitation and trafficking of women, right? Wro ...
25 Oct 2019 - Mike Wold
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?’ Bill McKibben Given the terrifying knowledge he possesses, it cannot be easy being Bill McKibben. McKibben writes in an indefatigable effort to alert us all to the ecocatastrophe already ...
27 Sep 2019 - Joe Martin
Book Review | “King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality” by Sylvie Laurent On April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King Jr. took a courageous risk when he proclaimed his oppos ...
30 Aug 2019 - Joe Martin