Steve Nathans-kelly

Take this repost of Steve Nathans-Kelly’s 2023 review of Dave Marsh’s final collection of essays as a tribute to Marsh. I think he’d dig how the review begins with an invocation of Daniel Wolff”s wonderful book on Dylan — a book suffused with the class co... See more

Richard Russo’s new novel, Under the Falls, should strike his longtime readers as both a departure and a return. The book bears many earmarks of a thriller, with its rapidly mounting aura of menace, its deadly car crash, the slowly unraveling mystery of t... See more

In 1949, renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes published a volume of verse titled One-Way Ticket, which captured many of the bitter realities that Blacks who fled the Jim Crow South in the Great Migration encountered when they reached northern ... See more

In his new novel Crucible, the acclaimed author and independent filmmaker John Sayles uses a graceful device to mark the passage of time in a novel that chronicles fifteen tumultuous years in mostly Depression-era Detroit in a multi-threaded, character-ri... See more

“The legend lives on,” begins Gordon Lightfoot’s enduring 1976 ballad of a 1975 shipwreck, “ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald .” 50 years later his words sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Although the doomed freighter, whose demise the song chronic... See more