On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
By Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer
Mariner Books; hardcover, 288 pages; $26.00
Julia Angwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who is a New York Times Opinion monthly contributing writer. In 2018, she founded The Markup, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that produces meaningful data-centered journalism about technology and the people affected by it.
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| The scene at the start of the Hudson River Derby. Photo by Jason Schott. |
New York City Football Club lost a heartbreaker on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, 1-0, to the Red Bulls in the latest installment of the Hudson River Derby.
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| The scene on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. Photo by Jason Schott. |
New York City Football Club played to a 0-0 draw with Nashville SC on Friday night at Yankee Stadium.
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend
Edited by Ravi Coltrane
Ten Speed Press; hardcover, 288 pages; $60.00; available today, Tuesday, September 1st
Ravi Coltrane is a critically-acclaimed Grammy-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer who is the second son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. Named after Indian sitae legend Ravi Shankar, he was born on Long Island and raised in Los Angeles, where his family moved after his father's death in 1967. Ravi has led the effort to restore the John Coltrane home in Dix Hills, Long Island, and presides over important reissues of his parents' recordings, while also keeping up his own performance schedule.
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| Nolan McLean firing one by Houston's Jeremy Pena in the sixth inning on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jason Schott. |
Nolan McLean entered the season with a case to be viewed as the ace of the Mets rotation, and as the season hits the home stretch, it looks like case closed.
City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
By Mason B. Williams
W.W. Norton & Company; hardcover, 400 pages; $38.99
Mason B. Williams has written about New York history, as he is the author of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York, which was an Editor's Choice of the New York Times Book Review. He is a teacher at Williams College.
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| Carson Benge knocking a single in the seventh inning. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Mets beat the San Diego Padres, 4-2, on Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field to take two of three in their series and cap a homestand in which the Mets won five out of six games.
