Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Judy White Staber’s portrait of her actress mother, Joan White, in Rise Above It, Darling. Plus short reviews of The Broken Tower by Kelly Braffet, The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes, Street Legal by Rafi Zabor, Generation Disaster by Karla Vermeulen, and When the World Runs Dry by Nancy Castaldo.
From a best-selling author Gary Shteyngart’s new pandemic-focused novel to Jennifer Golub's behind-the-scenes peek Russel and Mary Wright's transformation of Dragon Rock at Manitoga, here are six books to add to your January reading list.
Carolyn Quimby reviews Jonathan Lee’s The Great Mistake. Plus short reviews of Jacky Davis’s Sunny-Side Up, Phoebe North’s Strange Creatures, Michael Slaby’s For All the People, Edward M. Cohen’s Before Stonewall, and Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink The First Ten Years.