By Joshua Blevins Peck This month’s must-see documentaries include a behind-the-scenes look at Johannes Vermeer, a study of extreme wildfires, and a history of Black professional baseball.
By Jeff T. Dick Forthcoming DVDs and Blu-rays for every interest, including Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic and Guillermo del Toro’s revisionist take on Pinocchio.
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By Jeff T. Dick This month’s top indie and foreign films feature a frustrated yet hopeful detective, pilgrims seeking healing at Lourdes, and two Cameroonian youths making their way in a bleak world.
By Michael Dashkin These photography books illuminate the downtown NYC art scene of the ’70s, an innovator in color photography, peripatetic contemporary street photographers, and Black American studio photographers from the 1850s to the present.
By Gricel Dominguez Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Bloomsbury Food Library enables users to explore niche aspects of food history and their wider implications in historical and sociocultural contexts.
By Rob Tench Gale Business: Plan Builder effectively helps budding entrepreneurs, experienced business owners, and nonprofits create realistic business plans and analyze their business concepts
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