The New York Review of Books

Anthony Bourdain was born on June 25, 1956 in New York and grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. He attended Vassar College for two years and graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America in 1978. Bourdain then moved back to New York, where he worked as a chef in several kitchens such as the Supper Club, One Fifth Avenue, and Sullivan’s and later became an executive chef at Brasserie Le Halles, French Bistro steakhouse in 1998. Bourdain’s career as a restaurant chef gave him…

New Kid (ISBN13:9781338600896) by Jerry Kraft is a graphic novel. It’s also available as a full-cast audio presentation and an online flipbook. Awards: 2020 Newberry Medal Winner, 202 Coretta Scott King Author Award, and 2019 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature, also a New York Times Best Seller. Lexile level: GN320L. New Kid is a graphic novel about an African American male student who enrolls in a private school that lacks diversity. Jordan, the main character, faces many challenges…

What are credible sources? Credible sources are those you can trust. Those from which we can trust that the ideas and information provided come from the author. When doing a research paper we have to make sure that the information provided by the author is backed up with evidence. When writing a paper you should always use credible sources even if it takes longer, because if you don't your paper would be providing false information. In the other hand, you should always include citations and…

Mum with a Secret ‘When Mom Has a Secret’ is a long, but detailed, article by an American journalist and correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Tara Mckelvey. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. Mckelvey’s article angles the key events that bring up the past of the iconic terrorist group, SLA. The manifesto Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American made radical active group between 1973 and 1975 who considered…

Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York, New York: Broadway Books, 1975. 209. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Bow Me Up and Ship Me Home, is a wartime novel written by Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien. This book has been described as “A beautiful, painful book” (New York Times Book Review). After completing the novel, I concur with this statement. The book is beautifully written, but the content is anything but beautiful; it talks about gruesome deaths and hard truths. This book transports you to the days of…

activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his “I have a dream” speech and role in the civil rights movement using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. Published in the New York Times in 1991, “A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago.” Despite its…

events and Whitehead uses character to exemplify the emotions and situations felt through slaves at this time period. Whitehead highlights important issues such as race, literacy, and gender throughout his book, which will be emphasized throughout this essay. Race is a huge component of the book and its time period. In chapter 10, Whitehead writes “and America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes––believes with all its heart––that it is their right to take the…

public by publishing favorable reviews to boost their profits. Harvard Business School published a study that said, “Even an increase in rating for an independent restaurant owner would increase its revenue by 5 to 9 percent.” Websites like Yelp and Google, state they are trying to do what they can to stop fake reviews. Google has become proactive in fighting this problem, they have placed a link next to each review that allows users to notify Google of suspected fake reviews. Companies use…

Alonso Estrada HIST 1302 New York Times The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, written by James Weldon Johnson, is a story based around the life of an African American who was blessed with light colored skin. The man was seen by many individuals, and could go around, as if he were a white, normal American man. Because of this the man was treated much better than his brethren with a darker complexion, as he went unnoticed and unbothered by superficial racist people across the…

hostel? Travellers search the accommodation through the Internet and the companies like Airbnb create a new way to let people all over the word share their experience together. Gebbia explains how he started his business on creating Airbnb in Ted Talk. At the beginning of his speech, he shares his first hosting experience with a stranger that drove a red Mazda. Then he found a way to make new friends also make the rent at the same time. He proved the idea of building trust between people we…