Review: “You Think That’s Bad” by Jim Shepard
"You Think That's Bad" By Jim ShepardKnopf, $24.95, 222 pages The intrepid British travel writer Freya Stark, best known for her wanderings in the Middle East before the midpoint of...
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War memoir skewers leaders
Surely Kim Barker is the only foreign correspondent to sum up Afghan President Hamid Karzai as "whiny and conflicted, a combination of Woody Allen, Chicken Little and Jimmy Carter," with...
“What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism” by Jack Fuller
"What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism"By Jack FullerUniversity of Chicago Press, 214 pages, $25 "Nobody thinks for a moment that he ought to...
“What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism” by Jack Fuller
"What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism" By Jack Fuller University of Chicago Press, 214 pages, $25 "Nobody thinks for a moment that he...
“Grant Wood: A Life” by R. Tripp Evans
"Grant Wood: A Life" By R. Tripp Evans Knopf, $37.50, 432 pages Controversy attended Grant Wood's iconic and enigmatic painting "American Gothic" from its first public viewing, a juried exhibition...
“Grant Wood: A Life” by R. Tripp Evans
"Grant Wood: A Life" By R. Tripp EvansKnopf, $37.50, 432 pages Controversy attended Grant Wood's iconic and enigmatic painting "American Gothic" from its first public viewing, a juried exhibition at...
“Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death” by Jim Frederick
"Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death" By Jim Frederick Harmony Books, 439 pages, $26 A question arose briefly in a meeting between local sheiks...
“Imperfect Birds” by Anne Lamott
"Imperfect Birds" By Anne Lamott Penguin Group, 288 pages, $25.95 We might as well begin with Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal," which plays at a local theater in Anne...
“American Insurgents, American Patriots : The Revolution of the People Before Independence” by T.H. Breen
"American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People Before Independence" By T.H. Breen Hill & Wang, 324 pages, $27 Founding Father John Adams, looking back at the heady and...
“The Marrowbone Marble Company: A Novel” by Glenn Taylor
"The Marrowbone Marble Company: A Novel" By Glenn Taylor Ecco, 356 pages, $24.95 There is a boy named Orb in Glenn Taylor's new novel "The Marrowbone Marble Company," and he...