Proof of the Soul?

By Jeannette Cooperman

It is in marveling at transcendent wonders, experiences that lift us out of time and space, that our bodies relax into both physical and spiritual health.

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The Rise and Fall of Robert Kennedy’s Mission to Save America

By Gerald Early

Rising Justice is a magisterial book by a master historian, an epic sweep of Robert Kennedy and his time as a public figure. It is not a standard biography, but it has the narrative drive of a good biography. There is precious little here about Kennedy as a father, a husband, a son, just a few bits. Much testimony but little gossip. Yet one learns a great deal about Robert Kennedy person as well as Robert Kennedy the politician.

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Comics and Black America

By Clifford Thompson

Comic Art and African Americans

Essays

The Black Picture Show

By Clifford Thompson

Two new books, in many ways vastly different, take on the history of Blacks in American comics—one discussing the work of more celebrated cartoonists of the last century or so, the other focusing on previously hidden figures.

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Hardboiled! Oversexed! And Shoddily Written!

By Zachary Manditch-Prottas

Sticking it to The Man does not consider just any pulp fiction books; these are the stories of folks who have had enough of their designation as low and choose to rise up and challenge “the man” whose standards cast them down.

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From Criminal to Artist, From Father to Son

By Paul Buhle

Hands Up, Herbie! delves into the lower depths, where criminality is anything but abnormal. At the same time, it is a portrait of the artist as a young man.

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Whose Problem Is Lake Charles, Louisiana?

By John Griswold

Lake Charles, Louisiana, is a particularly sensitive canary in the coal mine of global warming. Not only is southwest Louisiana low-lying in the age of sea-rise; the land is also subsiding faster than just about anywhere on earth, and water courses through everything.

Essays

Why We Need Touch

By Jeannette Cooperman

Aristotle called touch the most universal of the senses, wrapping around both mind and body. All the other senses work by some form of touch, he pointed out, striking our receptor cells with light, sound, flavor, or fragrance.

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Sometimes Symmetry Is Overrated

By Jeannette Cooperman

Symmetry is “the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts”—and when is that realistic?

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Steinbeck Could Not Save to the Cloud

By Jeannette Cooperman

The Cloud has transformed our relationship to physical information. We no longer have occasion to be brave, to at least pretend nonchalance. We have no reason to make a fresh start.

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