Stealing Games by Maury Klein
★★★★☆ In 1911, baseball was transforming itself from the dead ball era to a more modern, open game. The introduction of the cork-centered ball in 1910 resulted in hits that traveled farther and faster....
Category: Book Reviews
Dimestore: A Memoir in Stories by Lee Smith
★★★★★ Thank you, Louis Rubin, professor of English Literature at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina and founder of Algonquin Books. Lee Smith has fulfilled the talent you saw in her: “But...
And the Sun Stood Still by Dava Sobel
★★★☆☆ Dava Sobel is a remarkable writer of scientific biography; she is a serviceable writer of drama. And the Sun Stood Still is a two-act play that captures the meeting between Nicolaus Copernicus and...
Better Living Through Criticism by A.O. Scott
★★★★★ It is difficult to critique a book on criticism without entering into the realm of giddy, reflective post-modernism. Yet, Better Living Through Criticism is unflinching in this regard, acting as a book about...
Poems by Ron Rash
★★★★★ Before Ron Rash was known as a writer of dazzling novels, he was a very highly regarded poet whose work appeared in journals such as the New England Review, Sewanee Review, Carolina Quarterly,...
Man on Fire by Stephen Kelman
★☆☆☆☆ There’s footage out there in the video-streaming digital ether of a British journalist doing a feature on the renowned Indian strongman Bibhuti Nayak. Nayak boasts a higher, enlightened harmony with his body and...
The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton
★★★★☆ The publication of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha in 1605 may have marked the greatest and most far-reaching literary event of all time. If you could read you bought a...
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova
★★★★★ The confidence artist, or con artist is known as such because he is able to enlist our confidence with his well-crafted narratives. In The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova walks readers through the many...
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
★★★★★ It is a slippery task to evaluate the quality of a work that is so deeply embedded in its own genre. B-movies, guilty pleasures, perfect pop songs, that “so-bad-it’s-good” accolade that countless genre...
