Tag: Books & Books
A new biography revisits one of America’s most contested first ladies
By Coral Gables Gazette staff History has been cruel to Mary Todd Lincoln. The received portrait — demanding, erratic, financially reckless, a burden to the president and an embarrassment to…
Rhodes brings America’s contested story to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Two days after its publication, a newly released work of American political history comes to Coral Gables. Books & Books presents an evening with Ben…
What ‘Survivor’ reveals about 25 years of American culture
By Coral Gables Gazette staff For 25 years, Americans have watched strangers lie, manipulate, betray allies, reinvent themselves, and compete for survival on a tropical island before a national television…
Ada Ferrer spent decades writing Cuba’s history. Her new memoir turns inward.
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Ada Ferrer has spent three decades writing about Cuba — its revolutions, migrations, political ruptures, and complicated relationship with the United States. Her latest book…
A widow’s memoir of Paul Auster comes to Books & Books
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Paul Auster told his wife he wanted to return as a ghost. He died on April 30, 2024, at 77, from complications of lung cancer…
History arrives early: Robert Watson brings the Declaration to Books & Books
By Coral Gables Gazette staff In July 2026, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — the document that announced to the world that…
Tracing American life from the 1980s to Covid, Jay McInerney brings Calloway saga to a close
By Coral Gables Gazette staff In the last days of March 2020, as New York shut down and the shape of what was coming became clear, Jay McInerney walked past…
Miami Film Festival returns to Coral Gables — with a hometown producer behind one of its biggest premieres
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The 43rd Miami Film Festival opens Thursday, April 9, and runs through April 19 — ten days of more than 160 films from 45 countries,…
Patrick Radden Keefe brings ‘London Falling’ to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff There is a particular kind of Patrick Radden Keefe book. It begins with a death or a disappearance — something specific, something human — and…
Russian journalist sentenced to prison will speak at Books & Books
By Coral Gables Gazette staff In July 2024, a Moscow court sentenced Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison for disseminating what Russia called “fake news” about…
