by Site Owner | Dec 9, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
by Michael Dirda Princeton University Press, $19.95, 210 pages If you’ve read Sherlock Holmes mysteries, then it will come as no surprise to you that someone has written On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, which is essentially a fan letter to Sir Arthur...
by Site Owner | Sep 17, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Princeton University Press, $19.95, 173 pages “For Evans-Wentz, the ur-text is Madam Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine…a work that she claimed to have received from the mahatmas in Tibet. …It seems, then, that Evans-Wentz knew what...
by michaeld | Jul 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
In on the plot to kill Hitler By Martin E. Marty Princeton University Press, $24.95, 275 pages Dietrich Bonhoeffer might not be a household name, at least among the current generation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: A...
by Site Owner | Apr 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics
by Garry Wills Princeton University Press, $19.95, 166 pages This is the type of biography you normally don’t see. It is not a biography of Augustine, there are enough of those; it is not another translation of his Confessions, there are enough of those as well. What...