Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” by Barbara Demick.
Written by award-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times Seoul bureau chief Barbara Demick, “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Considering the imminent presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on Friday, I felt that this peculiar historical event—read: Tragedy—requires a level of clarity and...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance of Death” by Kurt Vonnegut.
Humankind has an affinity for war which, as depressing and disappointing as it may be, we must all learn...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week Radar’s “Lit” pick is “The Chaos of Longing” by K.Y. Robinson.
While the previous few “Lit” picks have consisted of books which held some political resonance, this week’s choice, K.Y. Robinson’s “The Chaos of Longing,”...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng.
In her debut fictional novel “Everything I Never Told You,” Celeste Ng writes a hauntingly beautiful tale about a Chinese-American family which has...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Against Innocence” by Jackie Wang.
Jackie Wang’s essay, “Against Innocence,” is a critical interrogation of the uses of innocence.
Pulling from an array of academic disciplines like Black studies as well as...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Hold Still” by Sally Mann.
Sally Mann’s memoir, “Hold Still,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016, is a curious read. Mann became an iconic photographer in...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week Radar’s “Lit” pick is “War & Turpentine” by Stefan Hertmans.
Stefan Hertmans’ magnificent novel about the life of his grandfather, Urbaine Martien, is a subtle, vivid and worldwise piece of literature. This novel, a fictionalization...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “literally show me a healthy person” by Darcie Wilder.
Darcie Wilder’s “literally show me a healthy person” is a novel. Sort of. Purportedly. It’s a book whose author’s stream of consciousness...
Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation whenever possible. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “God: A Human History” by Reza Aslan.
Renowned scholar of religions, former host of CNN’s “Believer” and UCR Professor of Creative Writing Reza Aslan’s newest work explores a perennially overlooked aspect...