10 Nonfiction Books To Look for in 2022
Welcome to 2022! Now that you’ve made it through the holidays, it’s time to spend the next few months in a blanket and reading books. I highly recommend any of these 10 books to start the new year. The books…
Eric Liebetrau
A Visual Artist’s Rendering of the Year 2020
Cue the sad trombone: Despite high expectations, 2021 was not a significant improvement over 2020. Although visual artist Elise Engler Diary of a Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020 (Metropolitan/Henry Holt, January 18, 2022) is a clear 2020 story,…
When Athletes Speak Out for Social Change
“Shut up and dribble.” That’s what Laura Ingraham, Fox News talking head and dutiful MAGA mouthpiece, said in 2018 when she took to the air to whining about NBA superstar LeBron James† To criticize Donald Trump for his lack of…
A New Book Makes a Passionate Case for the Arts
For most Kirkus readers—and for any literature and humanities scholar—the answer to the above question is obvious: Absolute† However, it seems our leaders at all levels, from federal to local, don’t necessarily agree, as art funding is often the first…