Cracking the Hard Stuff
Wayne Kramer’s autobiography The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities, is a journey into...
Book Review
Labor Organizer Jonathan Rosenblum at Book Beat on Thursday, April 27th
Labor, Community, and Faith Organizer Jonathan Rosenblum will be at Book Beat on Thursday, April 27th from 7:00-8:30 PM to discuss his book Beyond...
January Reading Group Selection
“In The Swerve, the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt investigates why [Lucretius’ ] book nearly dies, how it was saved and what its rescue means to us.”– Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Reivew
11 Wonderful Photo Books
Book Beat hours are Mon-Fri. 10 am-8 pm, Sat. 10 am-7pm, Sun. 12-5pm, closed Christmas Eve at 5 pm, closed Christmas and...
A Strange Necessity
A Strange Necessity: Rebecca West, James Joyce & the Artistic Impulse Why does Art matter? What is this strange...
Bill Rauhauser at 93: Flânuer of Detroit
To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the...