Geoff Dyer's meditation on World War I and its effects takes an unconventional approach.
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Book Review: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
New biography provides unvarnished portrait of one of America's most famous trial attorneys.
Read More »Book Review: Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of Golf by Zachary Michael Jack
Total immersion into locale and culture forms foundation for exploration of Pebble Beach Golf Links.
Read More »Book Review: How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds by John Powell
Author's conversational tone and real life analogies make it easier to understand the building blocks of music.
Read More »Book Review: The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom by Stefan Waydenfeld
Memoir of Polish deportation to Soviet labor camps during World War II recalls often overlooked history.
Read More »Book Review: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton taught us How to Read Proust, gave us The Art of Travel and now spends a week in an airport.
Read More »Book Review: Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II by Judith Keene
Historian examines treason prosecutions of Australian, American, and British citizens who broadcast for the Axis during World War II.
Read More »Book Review: This Day In Music by Neil Cossar
People, concerts and bestselling records among second edition of pop and rock music events for each day of the year.
Read More »Book Review: The Scouting Party: The Making of the Boy Scouts of America by David C. Scott and Brendan Murphy
Meticulously researched book on formation of Boy Scouts suggests founders wanted movement to have strong principles of pacifism.
Read More »Book Review: Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden
How the war on drugs became the war FOR drugs.
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