Blue Yodel Each year, the Yale Younger Poets prize is awarded to an American under forty who has not previously published a book of poetry.
Gutenberg’s Apprentice While it is difficult to overemphasize the importance of moveable type and Gutenberg’s impact on the creation of the modern world, letterpress printing
Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal Published in 1931, Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal, an informal biography, benefits from actual interviews granted the author by the legendary lawman.
Georgia, a Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe To capture in words an artistry larger than words may sound impossible, but Dawn Tripp has achieved this lofty
The first thing I thought of after reading Neal Ferguson’s review of Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash was “Damn, I wish I was back selling books in
The Burning Hour Reading The Burning Hour reminds me of sitting outside on an arid Nevada afternoon, when thunderheads build over the mountains and hot,
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Sapiens was not a book of my choice. It was assigned as the next tome in our couples’ book
ANTHEM FOR A BURNISHED LAND: WHAT WE LEAVE IN THIS DESERT OF WORK AND WORDS Sitting alongside the Little Walker River last weekend, contemplating Nevada’s
BRITAIN’S WAR: INTO BATTLE, 1937-1941 Looking to give a book to a guy in your life? If he’s a World War II buff, you might
LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK As one might surmise from the tongue-in-cheek title, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk sojourns through a charming sequence of encounters,
THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE Elizabeth J. Church, who grew up in Los Alamos during the 1950s, writes an addendum to her novel, The Atomic
MY LAST CONTINENT On one level Midge Raymond’s novel, My Last Continent, shadows the initial attraction and then the developing love between Deb and Keller.
EDUCATED, A MEMOIR In 2014 at age twenty-seven, Idaho-born Tara Westover received a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University, UK. Remarkable? Yes. Made more remarkable
THE BONANZA KING: JOHN MACKAY AND THE BATTLE OVER THE GREATEST RICHES IN THE AMERICAN WEST Gregory Couch’s The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the
STILL ALICE Lisa Genova, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, writes novels about people with debilitating neurological diseases. Still Alice, first published in 2007, traces a
ANGLE OF REPOSE Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t
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