Parsing the politics of tyranny

Why conservatives and liberals repeatedly underestimate the revolutionaries

Devotions and delights

Books to quiet the soul and frame a new year

Rough around the edges

Billy Joe Shaver led a hard life but penned music full of truth

All is not as it seems

Three current novels and an oldie

Read all about it

Books about this year’s big news stories

Atypical “best-ofs”

New and noteworthy releases

A new classic?

Big-budget, music-filled Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is a hit

Wholesome young radicals

The Trial of the Chicago 7 presents an entertaining but fictionalized account of its subjects

New sheriff in town

Vindication is a well-acted crime drama

Space Age traditions

The Mandalorian continues digging into intriguing worldview themes in Season 2

Hollow Hillbilly

New film Hillbilly Elegy replaces complex characters with a mediocre Appalachian melodrama