Books High and Low

  This brief volume (114 pages) is part of the Great Religious Composers series, and much of the book is a discussion of De Machaut's M...

  I've become interested in the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut, born in 1300. He's more well-known for his secular music, ...

  I loved this book about twelve Native Americans who are coming together in Oakland, CA, for a powwow. In chapters that rotate between the ...

I'm a little late to the party on this collection of climate change books and films, but better late than never! The film shows Al Gore ...

  This is a fascinating and provocative look at Americans' penchant for believing the fantastical over the realistic, starting with the ...

  This is a history of photography from 1839 through 1949, when it was published. Containing almost exclusively black and white illustration...

  Brassa ï was one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century. This book collects many of his most famous photos, gr...

This is a collection of essays and accompanying photographs that pulls together many of the earliest pictures taken in the American Southwes...

  I really enjoyed this short novel (191 pages) set in 1980s Poland. It tells the story of two young men who meet and fall in love the summe...

  This book contains a collection of 109 photographs by Ansel Adams from the 1920s through the 1960s. They include landscapes, portraits, st...

  This is a nice collection of 75 of Ansel Adams' most well-known photographs. It's introduced by John Szarkowski, a photographer hi...

This is a powerful novel about a refugee couple from Aleppo whose son died in a bombing. Nuri and his wife Afra, who was blinded in the bomb...

  I loved this novel by James McBride. It's set in a Brooklyn housing project in the 1960s, when heroin is beginning to be widely availa...

  To a certain extent, this book is similar to Woodward's last book, Fear, in that it simply reinforces everything you know about Trump ...

  I really liked this 2013 film based on a graphic novel. The film was directed by Bong Joon-Ho, who also directed Parasite. The premise is ...

  I have mixed feelings about this first novel by Cameroonian author Imbolo Mbue. It started strong, with chapters alternating between Neni...

  Looking for a diversion from non-stop news watching, I borrowed this video from my library. I didn't know very much about Ansel Adams,...

  So You Want to Talk about Race was selected by my library's climate committee, which has held a number of discussions over Zoom about ...

  I am fond of reading accounts of others' reading habits and interests, so I was happy to find this book on my most recent foray to the...

  I enjoyed this novel about fictional Soviet dissident Baruch Kotler. As a young man in the Soviet Union, he was denounced by a close frien...

  Unbelievable that this book was published in 2019, and there are so many things that have happened since then. I would really like to know...

  I really enjoyed this collection of short stories by Stephen King. I've been a fan for a long time, but I don't pick up his works ...

  I have mixed feelings about this book. While it was a quick and engaging read, I couldn't help resenting that the author has no regret...

  This is a fascinating look at the legal system from one of the most prominent and well-known prosecutors in the U.S. It is a thoughtful an...

  I loved this book! It has been many years since I studied Greek mythology as an undergraduate, but this brought it all back to life for me...

  Andrew Cuomo's recent starring role during the COVID-19 pandemic piqued my curiosity about him, leading me to this warts-and-all unaut...

  I really enjoyed this short (196 page) novel by Jacqueline Woodson. It tells the story of multiple generations of one family. The context ...

  I was a little late in the game with this book, originally published in 2010, and updated in 2014. It's an in-depth look at the many e...

  I really enjoyed this detective story set in Venice, Italy, starring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Uniform Justice is the 12th in the serie...

I couldn't resist reading this memoir by Mary Trump, the daughter of Trump's older brother Fred. It's a slight book, at only 225...