2023

“Who’s Gonna Plug Their Ears When You Scream?”

Review of No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, by Paulina Porizkova

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (January 2023)

“Table for Two”

Review of Lunch with Lizabeth, by Todd Hughes

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (February 2023)

“Yonkers’ Paradise”

Review of Forgotten No More: The Restoration of Untermyer Gardens, by the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (March 2023)

“A Plunge Into a New Reality”

Review of War Diary, by Yevgenia Belorusets

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (April 2023)

“The Magic Touch”

Interview with bookseller and novelist Emma Straub, author of This Time Tomorrow and owner of Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (May 2023)

“Using Humor to Fight Antisemitism”

Review of Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew, by Jeremy Dauber

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (June 2023)

“The Way We Wore”

Review of J. C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, by Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (August 2023)

“The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum”

Review of Kappa, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell and Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (September 2023)

“Pollyannish Propaganda”

Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (October 2023)

“This One Will Put You to Sleep”

Review of I Must Be Dreaming, by Roz Chast

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (November 2023)

“Like Something Out of Harry Potter”

Review of Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood, by Andrew Garn

Published by The Red Hook Star-Revue (December 2023)