Laurie Hertzel
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Jouranlist." I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, LATimes and elsewhere. Hit me up for questions about hiking in Ireland, caring for a crazy dog, or anything about books.
Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve
Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016
Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
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Review: A Hmong American’s intimate memoir of war and displacementdatebook.sfchronicle.com Grounded in love and sorrow, Kao Kalia Yang’s third memoir, ‘Where Rivers Part,’ is her best, telling the story of her Hmong mother, who fled Laos.
Calvin Trillin paints a portrait of a disappearing world of journalism ... without a whiff of sentimentalitywww.latimes.com Calvin Trillin's new collection of stories, 'The Lede: Dispatches From a Life in the Press,' reminds us not just of his brilliant plying of the trade but also of what the trade once was.
'American Dreamer' looks at complexities of identity, allegiancestrib.gift NONFICTION: David Finkel's book is a keenly observed depiction of a divided country.
Review | Beloved Scottish writer Margot Livesey returns with a gem of a novelwapo.st “The Road From Belhaven,” set in Victorian Scotland, tells of orphaned Lizzie who is blessed — and cursed — with second sight.
"Trump's campaign guided filing of Michigan's false electors certificate, emails show" #ELBelectionlawblog.org Craig Mauger for the Detroit News: Then-President Donald Trump’s campaign directly orchestrated the filing of a certificate, signed by 16 Michigan Republicans, that falsely claimed he won the state�...
Siobhan MacGowan: My mind is full still with the magical mayhem of my brother Shane’s lifewww.irishtimes.com Even as very young children growing up in Tunbridge Wells, we were sure of our roots. Identity is not a postcode, and Shane understood this more than most
Death of a Gazan family: ‘Everyone in this video has been killed’www.irishtimes.com Thirty members of Mohammed Halalo’s family lie beneath the ruins of his childhood home in Gaza that neighbours say took a direct hit during an Israeli bombardment