by Seniye Groff | May 15, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks, NW Setting, Travel
The Pacific Northwest is known as a foodie paradise and Darrin Nordahl keeps that reputation alive with his book, Eating the Pacific Northwest. Nordahl begins his belief with a brief history of the area and how food indigenous to the area developed a food culture...
by Philip Rafferty | Jan 1, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Philosophy
The late Alan Watts is an important figure in the intellectual and spiritual development of twentieth century American thought. Watt is best known as an interpreter and practitioner of Zen Buddhism during a time where this practice was not very accessible to westerns....
by Sarah Hutchins | Jul 31, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
Within the opening sentence, Lorrie Moore explains that the title of this book – See What Can Be Done – is not a boast but an instruction she received with almost every note from the editor of The New York Review of Books. “It was a magical request, and it...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 6, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Columbia University alumni Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters have curated 30 essays by women writers, including themselves, on the subject of home in This Is the Place. “We realized that home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it’s a place that is safe, sentimental,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Medicine
Based on the title and the prologue, where editor Clifford E. Trafzer describes how he introduced a colleague to Native American healers who completely eradicated her stage 4 cancer, a reader might expect the rest of American Indian Medicine Ways: Spiritual Power,...
