- Jun 27, 2020
Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."
- May 15, 2020
Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.
- May 14, 2020
Review of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell by Tom Clavin
Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.
- May 11, 2020
Review of Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.
- Apr 24, 2020
Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.
- Feb 16, 2020
Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The most fascinating parts for me were the late-in-life reflections from those who had been involved in the IRA's brutal and unrelenting...