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Audiobook Review: Fatal Fair Jars Jedi in “Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm”
Cavan Scott does for the High Republic what Episode IV did for the original Star Wars series: pushing the frontiers of a fantastic world.
Book Review: 40 Years After Its Launch, NASA’s Space Shuttle Continues To Fascinate
“NASA Space Shuttle” is a fascinating time capsule and a reminder of a strange, wonderful period in the history of space exploration.
Audiobook Review: Victor Jestin’s “Heatwave” Is a Poignant Sizzler
“Heatwave” is an impressively cinematic book for one so interior; we see its adolescent protagonist from both inside and out.
Audiobook Review: Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
Believe the hype: “The Other Black Girl” is a richly realized journey into uncomfortable places, and you’ll be rooting for its heroine.
Book Review: “Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-40”
“Magnetic North” expands our understanding of the complex dynamics behind landscapes that once appeared simple pleasures.
Audiobook Review: Karen Tumulty’s “The Triumph of Nancy Reagan” Offers the Ultimate Insider’s View of ’80s Politics
Karen Tumulty’s book suggests that perhaps the best way to tell the story of the Reagan years is not through Ronnie’s eyes, but Nancy’s.
Audiobook Review: Star Wars Springs Into Its Past, Present, and Future
Three new titles dwell on the demise of the Galactic Empire; turn back to the Jedi Order’s glorious past; and head out beyond known space.
Book Review: Jan Schwochow Explains the World in 264 Infographics
Jan Schwochow’s ‘The World Explained’ is an incredible journey, demonstrating the growing fascination of infographics.
Book Review: “Tumblr Porn” Raises Alarms About the Need for Safer NSFW Spaces
Ana Valens has performed an important service for anyone who doesn’t want to see priceless community deleted with the stroke of a pen.
Audiobook Review: Star Wars Harks Back to the High Republic
Lucasfilm has opened a much-hyped multi-year publishing project set in the High Republic, hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga.
Book Review: “Cocktails of the Movies” Helps You Shake It Like a Paramount Picture
These are the drinks the characters are actually seen sipping, so the book amounts to a cultural history of cocktails.
Review: “Melissa Forti’s Christmas Baking Book” Cooks Up Dark Delights
It’s the perfect baking book for quarantine, in which home cooks have plenty of leisure to read the author’s recollections of Christmas past.