Monthly Archives: November, 2015
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography (William F. Buckley)
“Miles Gone By” is a good, but somewhat disorienting, book. It’s disorienting, first, because it’s disjointed—while divided into chapters covering different topics, it’s actually...
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family (Anne-Marie Slaughter)
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s book is compelling. But too frequently it relies on unsupported, and in fact unvoiced, assumptions. And like a stick figure with one...
Dreamland (Sam Quinones)
“Dreamland” is about opiate addition, and about an America most of us don’t see. Those most affected by the explosion in opiate use chronicled...
One Year After (William Fortschen)
This is just not a very good book. It’s not a dreadful book. Just not very good. True, it’s better than most modern apocalyptic...