
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 9, 2026Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...

The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 9, 2026The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...

Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 4, 2026As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...

Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
April 30, 2026Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...

Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...

Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...

Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...

Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
March 15, 2026The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...












