Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “Ways to Disappear” a novel by Idra Novey
by Alexandra Bowie Pity Emma Neufeld, the protagonist of Idra Novey’s delightful novel “Ways to Disappear.” Emma is a…
May 13, 2016-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy” A Memoir by Sue Klebold
by Alexandra Bowie It’s easy to understand why the parent of a murderer may be ostracized by her community.…
April 29, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Year of the French,” a novel by Thomas Flanagan
by Alexandra Bowie A small country, populated by an uneducated peasantry who make their living as farmers, with a…
April 22, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone” by Olivia Laing
by Alexandra Bowie The loss of a love affair, and the subsequent plunge from being one of a pair…
April 15, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination” by Richard Mabey
by Alexandra Bowie Plants give humans many things: Oxygen. Shade. Beauty. Food. Scientific insights. Subjects for works of art.…
April 8, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” A Novel by Anthony Marra
A village outside of Grozny, the Chechen capital, a hospital–one of the few buildings still standing in the bombed-out…
March 25, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanathi
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths . . . I would spread the cloths under your feet Paul…
March 18, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Review: “ Florence Gordon” by Brian Morton
Women of a certain age tend to become invisible, but not Florence Gordon, a writer and the title character…
March 11, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World” by Tim Marshall
Our communications and travel technological advances of the last half century or so have made the world feel very…
March 4, 2016 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone” by Scott Shane
When Barack Obama took office as President of the United States in January 2009, the US was still heavily…
February 19, 2016