Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Flood of Fire” by Amitav Ghosh
“Flood of Fire,” the final novel in Amitav Ghosh’s wonderful set of historical novels the Ibis Trilogy, covers the…
November 6, 2015-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Butcher’s Crossing” by John Williams
Dedicated fans of John Williams’ novels “Augustus,” (1972, reviewed here), and “Stoner,” (when the book was published, in 1965,…
October 30, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life” by Alex Bellos
Math is full of jokes, says Alex Bellos, and he uses his recent book “The Grapes of Math” to…
October 23, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Muse” by Jonathan Galassi
Jonathan Galassi’s charming new novel “Muse” is a love story, Galassi tells us in its opening pages, and so…
October 16, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The 33” by Hector Tobar
Many readers will remember the 2010 news reports of the Chilean miners: trapped underground for more than two months…
October 9, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Fates and Furies” by Lauren Groff
Lancelot Satterwhite, called Lotto, and Mathilde Yoder, the central characters in Lauren Groff’s wonderful new novel “Fates and Furies,”…
October 2, 2015 -
Theatre for a New Audience presents John Lahr in conversation with Sarah Ruhl
On Wednesday, October 7 John Lahr, drama critic for “The New Yorker” and author of “Joy Ride: Show People…
October 1, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Station Eleven” A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
Arthur Leander, playing Lear in “King Lear” on a wintry night in Toronto, has a heart attack onstage and…
September 25, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine” by Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Damon Tweedy graduated from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County with extremely good grades and an average score on the…
September 18, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “American Romantic” by Ward Just
At an early stage of the Vietnam War Harry Sanders, a young foreign service officer and the hero of…
September 13, 2015