by Site Owner | Jun 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Steven L. Berk, MD Texas Tech University Press, $27.95, 288 pages Texas doctor Steven L. Berk sips coffee while editing his son’s school assignment on a bright Sunday morning when a red-eyed stranger steps into his home office. Over the barrel of a leveled shotgun...
by Site Owner | Apr 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Peter Englund Alfred A. Knopf, $35.00, 540 pages Peter Englund’s book brings the stories of lost men and women into our own time and makes fresh a catastrophe as remote from us as the Spanish Flu epidemic. He does us a service in presenting this humane recollection...
by Site Owner | Mar 28, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Jane Smiley Penguin Books, $14.00, 210 pages The good news has two parts: The book is fresh and it clocks in at 209 pages. What is left to be said of Dickens’ personal life? More ink has been spilt on the man’s existence than blood at Balaclava. One suspects the...
