by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2020 | Staff Picks
About the documentary: “Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and...
by envisionmg | Jul 23, 2020 | Jim Recommends
Current events have reminded me that like many white Americans I am sadly lacking in my knowledge of African History. Over the course of the pandemic I’ve put together an African history reading list that I have been slowly working my way through. This is only...
by envisionmg | Jul 21, 2020 | Rachel Recommends
The Birth of Sake (dir. Erik Shirai, 2015) is a documentary that tells the story of a brewing season at Yoshida Brewery, one of the few remaining Japanese breweries to practice the traditional manufacturing process for sake. But more than a story about the brewery or...
by envisionmg | Jul 16, 2020 | Audiobooks, Fiction, Michelle Recommends
The real crime here is that Forever and a Day appears to be the only audiobook actor Matthew Goode* has narrated. Though imagined—imagined because I cannot know, of course, if he has or hasn’t been thought of—perhaps an even more egregious crime is that not a...
by envisionmg | Jul 10, 2020 | Children's Literature
Looking for something for your children to read? Check out this year’s MCBA list!
