From Chicago to Vietnam: A Memoir of War by Michael Duffy

by Paul Vicary | Nov 14, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored, War & Military

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Inkwater Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] More books have been written about the Vietnam War than about any other American war. The...

Women of the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading by Asma Lamrabet, translated by Myriam Francois-Cerrah

by Paul Vicary | Oct 17, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Religion

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] In this thin volume, Lamrabet, a Moroccan pathologist and activist, broaches the...

The Moral Vacuum by Martyn Gabe

by Paul Vicary | Oct 5, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Xlibris Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] “Conspiracy theory” is a term that at once strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure,...

Storyland: Poetry by Keith Dunlap

by Paul Vicary | Sep 26, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Hip Pocket Press Formats: Paperback Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] In “Greatly Exaggerated,” a review of H.L. Hix’s book Morte d’Author: An Autopsy, the late David Foster Wallace discussed...

The Rising (Centenary Edition): Ireland: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry

by Paul Vicary | Sep 22, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon [/alert] The Rising reviews one of the seminal events (if only symbolically so) in Irish history. The Easter Rising of...