Fort NotEmily Skillings. The Song Cave, $17.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-9967786-9-5
Poet and dancer Skillings beckons readers down a rabbit hole of lush sensory and imaginative experiences in her fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut. Through the iridescent kaleidoscope of her mind’s eye, she methodically explores her personal “Encyclopedia of World Mythology-size... Continue reading »
Rasika: Flavors of IndiaAshok Bajaj, Vikram Sunderam, and David Hagedorn. Ecco, $34.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-0624-3555-2
Bajaj, a restaurateur, and Sunderam, a James Beard Award–winning chef, head up the noted Washington, D.C., restaurant Rasika. Together, along with writer Hagedorn, they share their approach to food as well as the recipes behind the restaurant’s success in this splendid celebration of Indian cuisine.... Continue reading »
Song of the Wild: A First Book of AnimalsNicola Davies, illus. by Petr Horacek. Candlewick, $19.99 (108p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9160-8
Davies and Horacek offer a striking poetic and visual tribute to the animal world. Grouped into thematic chapters that include “Big and Small,” “Colors and Shapes,” and “Animal Homes,” Davies’s pithy, playful poems skillfully impart details about the various creatures (“From a swollen, pregnant pouc... Continue reading »
Samuel C. Heilman. Univ. of California, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-520277-23-6
This detailed study of changes in leadership in the major communities of the Hasidic movement—Munkacs, Boyan and Kopyczynitz, Bobov, Satmar, and Chabad—is not aimed at the same general audience as sociology professor Heilman’s acclaimed other works (The Rebbe; Sliding to the Right)... Continue reading »
Jonathan Hennessey and Jack McGowan. Ten Speed, $18.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-57890-8
Although video games entered pop culture in the 1980s, their roots date from much further back. In fact, as Hennessey (The Comic Book Story of Beer) argues in this detailed, if sometimes too cutesy, history, electronic gaming developed not as an offshoot of the computer revolution but right alongsid... Continue reading »
Magpie MurdersAnthony Horowitz, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-0-06-267764-8
Horowitz’s new novel salutes the whodunit by presenting two sterling examples of it—a golden age classic in the style of Christie and Sayers bookended by a contemporary mystery involving the suspicious death of bestselling author Alan Conway. Actor Bond, best known as Lady Rosamund on the televis... Continue reading »
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