May 2022 Staff Picks
May 2022 Staff Picks
Brenda’s Pick: Between two kingdoms: a memoir of a life interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Suleika Jaouad’s memoir has two parts: her life in the first “kingdom” was when she…
September 2020 Staff Picks
Brenda’s Pick: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese This novel appeared over 10 years ago. Written by a doctor, the story follows the lives of identical twin boys, Shiva and…
February 2020 Staff Picks
David’s Pick: The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See Dargis, Manohla (ed.) This collection of New York Times film reviews is fascinating to skim…
October 2019 Staff Picks
David’s Pick : The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies by David Thomson “This book is a love letter to a lost love, I suppose” writes Thomson near the end of…