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Charles Kaiser, author of 1968 in America, on the return of Bob Dylan
…us had worshiped him when he used nothing but a harmonica and an acoustic guitar to become the most important American folk singer of modern times. That was the way…
Maureen Corrigan on Michelle Dean’s Sharp
…one foot in the mainstream of the American intellectual culture that men made, and one foot outside, sometimes by their own decision, and sometimes not. And each one of them,…
The Daily Beast Review: Hue 1968
…awash in paradox, irony, and senseless destruction. The Communists took the city knowing they could not hold it, and the Americans virtually destroyed the place wresting it back. Bowden reconstructs…
How the Hell Did This Happen? – PJ O’Rourke on Trump’s Election
…heroes, who rarely felt the need to leave his beloved Baltimore in order to lambast the idiocy of his fellow Americans. O’Rourke lives, as it says on the dust jacket,…
Celebrating Women’s History Month
…story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature,…
