Feb 18, 2024 | Book Reviews
Uma Vanka strikes an interesting pose ideologically. He’s not a blind optimist to the polarizing issues his book explores. Nor does he adopt the kind of cautionary, foreboding tonality of an Elon Musk in this debate. Cautious optimism is the road he walks, a fine line...
Feb 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
Thich Nhat Hahn’s new book is simply titled How to Smile. As he brilliantly demonstrates, the idea – while easily dismissed in today’s world as superfluous in the face of short-term immediacies – in fact is probably one of the deepest, most introspective analyses...
Jan 4, 2024 | Book Reviews
1/6: The Graphic Novel, which released it’s second issue this week, in some ways feels like an intellectually, and personally intimate view into the lens of people like Harvard Law Professor Alan Jenkins. In many ways, the origins speak for themselves – not just...
Nov 23, 2023 | Book Reviews
Michael D. Meloan’s new book is titled Pinball Wizard, a short novel focusing on Mr. Meloan’s relationship with Los Angeles-based author and poet Charles Bukowski. The book immediately feels deeply personal, even like something of a roman a clef to be honest. Mr....
Oct 26, 2023 | Book of the Month, Book Reviews
Elizabeth Troylynn’s book is a love letter to maintaining faith to get through hard times. She writes with this matter-of-fact candor, mixed with an unapologetic and overflowing love for Jesus. In the plainspokenly titled His Mosaic Masterpiece, Troylynn highlights...
Oct 13, 2023 | Book Reviews
Tears Become Rain: Stories of Healing and Transformation Inspired by Thich Nhat Hahn is a new anthology on navigating grief, compiled by authors and editors Jeanine Cogan and Mary Hillebrand. Part of how the duo’s intentions are clear not just by objective and guided,...