The Bookshelf

There was a lot of social media chatter around Masters time this year about Alan Shipnuck’s Rory (Avid Reader Press, $32.50)…. Read more »

[July 8, 2026]–Both the U.S. and Mexico have now been eliminated from the 2026 World Cup, but that shouldn’t stop… Read more »

I’ve never been much for college sports, but I know the passion runs deep for many. I also don’t know… Read more »

Post-Father’s Day is a slow season for golf books. We’ve got one, but we’ve gone beyond books this time around… Read more »

Hitting the road in pursuit of golf, albeit for different reasons, is the subject of three entertaining books: Sean Zak… Read more »

[Sept. 8, 2025]–I put up a Facebook photo a few days ago showing a stack of books I’ve read—or partially… Read more »

Chronicling events long in the rear-view mirror is a risky business. The late great Herbert Warren Wind did it so… Read more »

Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan Swift usually gets the credit for the line, “Everything old is new again.” For our purposes,… Read more »

By my count, including one roman a clef novel, I’ve read at least ten books specifically about Tiger Woods, and… Read more »

When he retired from a high-powered three decade-plus career with ExxonMobil as engineer and executive at the age of 58,… Read more »