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The Stranger Within Sarah Stein – A Skillful Mixture Of Fantasy And Tragedy by Thane Rosenbaum

On March 29, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Vampires, Werewolves, Fantasy, Young Adult Literature, by Editor

Twelve-year-old Sarah Stein loves life in New York. Who wouldn’t, growing up in a cool TriBeCa loft with an artist dad and a chocolate-maker mom, rollerblading in Central Park, hanging out with friends? That is, until the day her parents tell her they’re divorcing. Forced to shuttle each day by bicycle between their separate residences on either side of the Brooklyn Bridge, Sarah soon discovers that the parents she thought she knew are as opposite as their new homes.

Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America by Myra B. Young Armstead

On March 17, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

Brown’s experience of upward mobility demonstrates the power of freedom as a legal state, the cultural meanings attached to free labor using horticulture as a particular example, and the effectiveness of the vibrant political and civic sphere characterizing the free, democratic practices begun in the Revolutionary period and carried into the young nation. In this first detailed historical study of Brown’s diaries, Armstead thus utilizes Brown’s life to more deeply illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years.

Open City – A Novel With A Masterful Command Of Narrative Voice by Teju Cole

On February 29, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

A haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world.

Heft: A Heartwarming Novel About Larger-Than-Life Characters And Second Chances by Liz Moore

On February 26, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Heft tells the winning story of two improbable heroes whose sudden connection transforms both their lives. Like Elizabeth McCracken’s The Giant’s House, Heft is a novel about love and family found in the most unexpected places.

Jackson Pollock – A Biography Of An American Icon by Evelyn Toynton

On February 26, 2012, in Art & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous “drip paintings,” he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire—the role that made Marlon Brando famous.

The Darlings: A Financial Thriller by Cristina Alger

On February 20, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

With echoes of a fictional Too Big to Fail and the novels of Dominick Dunne, The Darlings offers an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society-a world seldom seen by outsiders-and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions.

Collaborate or Perish!: Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World by William Bratton And Zachary Tumin

On January 27, 2012, in Book Reviews, Business & Investing, Nonfiction, by Editor

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world.

The Street Sweeper – A Novel Of Life In Immigrant America by Elliot Perlman

On January 17, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

The acclaimed author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman weaves the narratives of Lamont and Adam-and their myriad connected friends, lovers, and families-into an ambitious, masterful depiction of the power that memory has over our lives.

Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side by Ed Sanders

On January 12, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Music, Nonfiction, by Editor

Fug You is Ed Sanders’s unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of “total assault on the culture,” to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York’s downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground’s scrutiny, and leading to Sanders’s arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore.

The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel About A Community’s Predilection For Violence by Nelson George

On January 12, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

The Plot Against Hip Hop is a noir novel set in the world of hip hop culture. The stabbing murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard and security expert D Hunter, suspects there are larger forces at work.

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