This 2012 biography is a refreshing and well-written tour through the life of one of the 20th century greats. It is especially strong as a…
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This 2012 biography is a refreshing and well-written tour through the life of one of the 20th century greats. It is especially strong as a…
This is a compelling if overly enthusiastic Libertarian fantasia from 1997, replete with bold predictions about the impact of technology on politics. We can now…
The Sewickley public library has a quarterly book sale. It runs three days and I’m usually only able to wander over on the middle day,…
Calling James Gleick a “science writer” feels undernourished. His works are always written with style and a sense of wonder without burying the reader in…
Before graduation ceremonies for her older sister at St. Paul’s School, then 15-year old Chessy Prout was sexually assaulted by another senior, Owen Labrie, who…
Somewhere under the thick cocoon of academic writing (if you had “performative” in your fantasy vocabulary draft for this book, you win) about how social…
Phineas Finn, the second of the Palliser/Parliamentary novels repeats many of the virtues and vices of the first of the series, Can You Forgive Her,…
I finally got around to the memoir by Scott Bradlee that first interested me in Postmodern Jukebox. Outside the Jukebox is worthy both an autobiography…
The habit of separating ecclesiastical history from secular history has tended to make everything ecclesiastical appear more rarefied than it really is. It is only…