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Review: “Melissa Forti’s Christmas Baking Book” Cooks Up Dark Delights
It’s the perfect baking book for quarantine, in which home cooks have plenty of leisure to read the author’s recollections of Christmas past.
Audiobook Review: “The Empire Strikes Back” Seen “From a Certain Point of View”
With welcome diversity and boundless creativity, that long-ago, far-away galaxy has never come so gratifyingly close to our own.
Book Review: “The Return of the Russian Leviathan” Reaches Uncomfortably Close to Home
In ‘The Return of the Russian Leviathan,’ Sergei Medvedev makes clear that a strongman doesn’t actually make a country stronger.
Review: “Nightmare Before Christmas” Advent Calendar? Of Course It’s Awesome
A new Nightmare Before Christmas Advent Calendar from Insight Editions is a book-within-a-book; the outer book reveals a pop-up tree.
Audiobook Review: New “Clone Wars” Anthology Tells Star Wars “Tales of Light and Dark”
A boon for fans young and old who want to spend a little more time with some of the best Clone Wars stories, and hear them through new ears.
Book Review: “Into the Arctic Ice” Documents a Disappearing World
As the subtitle of photographer Esther Horvath’s new book ‘Into the Arctic Ice’ states, MOSAiC is ‘The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time.’
Audiobook Review: Ol’ Blue Skin is Back in “Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book I: Chaos Rising)”
The full ‘Ascendancy’ series promises to resolve the question of why Thrawn was seemingly cast out of the Chiss.
Audiobook Review: “Poe Dameron: Free Fall” Fills In the Story of All That Shifty Stuff
‘The Rise of Skywalker’ made clear that there’s a lot of ground to cover in Poe’s past; ‘Free Fall’ covers at least the top headlines.
Book Review: “Eighth Wonder of the World” Tells the Story of André, the Gentle Giant
‘In the ring, he had faced countless foes, but in real life, only one human being could challenge André the Giant. His name was André Roussimoff.’
Book Review: In “What Is At Stake Now,” Mikhail Gorbachev Exhorts the Whole World to Just Be Reasonable
Mikhail Gorbachev’s short but wide-ranging new book ‘What Is At Stake Now’ reads as an elegy to a more optimistic time in world affairs.
Book Review: “Traveler’s Guide to Batuu” Demonstrates the Depth of Galaxy’s Edge
The genius of Galaxy’s Edge is that it allows visitors to imagine themselves part of a story — even if they don’t see it unfolding before their eyes.
Review: “Star Wars Book of Lists” Catalogs a Galaxy Far, Far Away
ocusing almost exclusively on the 11 live-action films, ‘Book of Lists’ doesn’t sell itself as anything beyond a fun flip-through for Star Wars buffs.