Stiles, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The First Tycoon, his 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, offers a deeply personal portrait of George Armstrong Custer, the enigmatic and controversial figure who has long been more caricature than man. (bookpage.com)
This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York — based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. (arthaps.com)
Though there isn't much of a message to glean from this inappropriately - titled homage to the dawn of female empowerment, one can easily appreciate its vivid triptych of poignant personal portraits. (kamwilliams.com)