by Site Owner | Jun 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Julian Barnes Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95, 176 pages The Sense of an Ending is a novel of recollection and reflection. They say hindsight is 20/20, but is it? Patrick Lagrange said, “History is that certainty produced at the points where the imperfections of memory...
by Site Owner | May 31, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
By M.G. Lord Bloomsbury Press, $22.00, 212 pages Elizabeth Taylor was a child star, Oscar winner and cultural icon. She was famous as much for her personal life as for her films, and she had a profound effect on the public consciousness. M.G. Lord takes a look at the...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Alice Albinia Norton, $25.95, 422 pages Leela Sharma is returning to India with her husband, Hari, after being away for decades. She doesn’t want to have anything to do with the past: the memories of Meera, her dead poet sister, Vyasa, her arrogant manipulator...
by Site Owner | May 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Jay Rubenstein Basic Books, $29.99, 402 pages The First Crusade was a monumental undertaking, a journey across continents, cultures, languages, and religions toward the Apocalypse. So why did it happen? What actually did happen? And what was the result?...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
By William Shatner with Chris Regan Dutton, $21.95, 254 pages William Shatner has been in the public eye for decades. He’s worked in film, television and theatre; given lectures, recorded albums, written books and, let’s not forget, attended all those “Star Trek”...
