Tag Archives: Summer 2019

Another Kind of Madness

Ed Pavlić Milkweed Editions ($26) by Julian Anderson When Ndiya Grayson, the young black professional protagonist in Another Kind of Madness, journeys to see the musician Shame Luther in an unfamiliar Chicago neighborhood, she misjudges her step off the bus and plunges into a puddle. Now, rather than appearing cool and collected at his door, […]

This Atom Bomb in Me

Lindsey A. Freeman Redwood Press ($18) by Will Wlizlo Oak Ridge is a small city like many other small cities and, at the same time, a place with few parallels. Its mazy streets are dotted with anodyne pre-fab homes like so many post-war communities, yet the sleepy town just west of Knoxville, Tennessee, has a […]

Stonewall at 50

Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era Edited by Jason Baumann W. W. Norton and Company ($24.95) The Stonewall Reader Edited by The New York Public Library Penguin Classics ($18) by Greg Baldino The summer of 2019 marks the 50th year since the events of LGBTQ history known as the Stonewall […]

A Fortunate Man

Henrik Pontoppidan translated by Paul Larkin Museum Tusculanum Press ($35) by Poul Houe This new English translation of a 750-page long Danish novel written more than a century ago is a heavyweight both literally and figuratively. On the volume’s front cover a blurb by Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann reads, “the author of A Fortunate Man […]