Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam A common observation is that “victors” write history. To say this
The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature Midway through The Bohemians, Ben Tarnoff describes “the seed of California humor”
Truthfully, I never ever have wondered what it would be like to delay menopause forever. It certainly never has occurred to me to want to
Alessandro Giuliani, athletic, well muscled, handsome, professor of aesthetics, and fictional protagonist of Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, declares that fighting in
THE GOOD LORD BIRD It’s not any wonder that James McBride’s latest book, The Good Lord Bird won the 2013 National Book Award, and I
Year Zero, A History of 1945 In American culture, an enduring image of the end of World War II is “The Kiss,” a photograph of
Wild, From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a memoir of her 1995 solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail,
Edmund Burke, The First Conservative In Edmund Burke, Jesse Norman resuscitates this eighteenth-century philosopher’s relevance for twenty-first century readers, thinkers, and perhaps politicians. Norman, who
Not since Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers in 1942 has there been a more jaundiced portrait of motherhood. Mother, Mother is a novel about a
Australian novelist Liane Moriarty poses an intriguing question: what might occur if/when a wife unwittingly/purposely unearths a heretofore hidden, horrific marital secret? What might happen,
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Although my professional life as a historian has been devoted almost exclusively to
The vortex exists, and poetry is one place to find it. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a single image triggers a memory from
Jincy Willet is a very funny lady. That may be presumptuous, but after reading Amy Falls Down, I don’t think I’m far off the mark.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914 In the past century more than 25,000 books have been published about World War I and
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics The Boys in the Boat is
Chinese Fables, The Dragon Slayer and Other Timeless Tales of Wisdom Chinese Fables is a picture book treasure for both the mind and the eye.
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