Briefly Noted

“With warm, gentle rhymes and soft, sweet art, this book celebrates the power we all have to love, and to use that love to make the whole world a better, kinder, more welcoming place.”

“A fifth-row center seat for a perceptive look at a vital time on the Broadway boards.”

“It’s a book of flesh-filled phantoms singing in pornosophical chorus. Their song will leave you silky, limp-lidded, stained, and strangely sated.”

“Brown shows how for persecuted and imprisoned Jews, music became a way to preserve their humanity and at times even their lives. … Brown has succeeded admirably in bringing together in one volume so much important research.”

“Fascinating . . . The chapter on the original meanings of sections of the Sermon on the Mount is alone worth the price of admission. A rich and important offering.” 

“Devin Jacobsen is a writer to watch out for.”