Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
June 2, 2026The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
May 25, 2026Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
May 24, 2026He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
May 23, 2026So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
Walking It Off – by Doug Peacock
May 22, 2026Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...
I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
May 20, 2026Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
May 17, 2026McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in...
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...




