Andrea Currie

Oct 23, 2024 | cbc.ca | Elizabeth Smart |Corinna Chong |Jenny Heijun Wills |Andrea Currie

Check out some of the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs between Oct. 15-22, 2024. Bad Land by Corinna ChongBad Land is a novel by Corinna Chong. (Silmara Emde, Arsenal Pulp Press)Heard on: Bookends with Mattea RoachIn , Regina's brother shows up on her doorstep with his six-year-old daughter after seven years, interrupting her quiet loner life.

Aug 28, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson |Andrea Currie

Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art In this trenchant treatise, Lebanese American novelist Alameddine (The Wrong End of the Telescope) pushes back against the argument that “art should be separate from politics.” He contends that all art is political and that writing only appears apolitical if it “reinforces the dominant society’s values.” For instance, Alameddine argues that John Updike’s decision to write about “stultifying suburbia” at the height of the Vietnam War should be...

Aug 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson |Andrea Currie

David Graeber. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-61022-7This brilliant posthumous collection of essays by, and interviews with, anthropologist Graeber (The Dawn of Everything) serves as a revealing portrait of Graeber himself. In the interviews, he discusses his childhood as the son of lefty radicals, his teenage political coming-of-age, and his transformation into a public intellectual during the 2008 Occupy protests.

Aug 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson |Andrea Currie

Justene Hill Edwards. Norton, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-324-07385-7America’s racial wealth gap can be traced to the collapse of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company in 1874, according to this ingenious work of financial sleuthing.

Jun 17, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson |Andrea Currie

Sasha Abramsky. Bold Type, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64503-043-0Two small towns grapple with a rising tide of right-wing conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric in this enthralling account.