Reviews

Sifting through the ephemera of youth for the kernel of a great man’s mature persona can be exhilarating for a… Read more »

Oliver Sacks writes beautifully in a singular style yoking compassion and curiosity to the cool professional gaze of the… Read more »

Native American Son. The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe. Kate Buford � Knopf, $35, 496 pages Jim Thorpe… Read more »

Though lots of new books about golf are published every year, not many are worth reading, and even fewer endure. … Read more »

The noisy patriots clamoring to “take America back” might well wonder what traitorous voice would celebrate America as “an asylum… Read more »

Larry Colton has a new book coming out next month, one he’s worked on for almost ten years. Called No… Read more »

Per Petterson achieved international renown with his previous novel, “Out Stealing Horses.” Its prose had a kind of stillness and… Read more »

So I don’t risk burying my recommendation where an inattentive reader might miss it, let me say right upfront: Read… Read more »

A writer as good as Russell Banks wouldn’t blurb a novel unless he believed in its author’s talent, so when… Read more »

March 06, 2010 Henry Petroski has carved out a distinctive literary niche by writing about engineering. A columnist for American… Read more »

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