Books
Mapping our history of violence
Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps.
“Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...
The allure of the idealized auteur
To extract Shelley Duvall’s traumatized, haggard performance in The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick made her life a living hell for the duration of shooting...
Changing hearts and minds 3 mph at a time
You could say Jonathon Stalls is a full-time pedestrian. You could probably glean that from his toe shoes, well-worn walking stick and routine propensity...
The truth about ‘On the Road’
In his latest book, Gerald Nicosia has unlocked the dynamic of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and not a moment too soon...
Fifty shades of grey
Alot of books get sent to the BW newsroom. So many that we play the pre-Christmas game of feeling the manila envelopes and trying to guess their contents, the most popular answers being supernatural young adult romance, TV talking head’s unified theory of something ...
