Briefly Noted

“In his writing, Reed is a great improviser, a master of collage with an amazing ability to syncretize seemingly disparate and divergent materials into coherent ‘edutainments’―forms of surprise, revelation, and frequent hilarity.”

“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.”