Knowing where you’re going takes all the fun out of getting there… Kara McAllister is lost and she knows it. That’s why she is drawn to a strange Rand- McNally map of the […]
How we find our way: Denny Wilkins’ Mapping Utah – a Review
Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation: why you don’t see Pilgrims at the movies
I saw (for the second time) Terence Malick’s The New World Friday night. It’s a strange and engrossing movie, what one critic calls a “tone poem” about the founding of the Jamestown settlement. Part history, part psychological […]
Review: Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon
When I think of useful literary devices, Pat Nixon is not the first thing that comes to mind. To be honest, I don’t have one single thing that comes to mind when […]
Hank Haney's 'The Big Miss' is just that: Nothing new about Tiger Woods
by Chip Ainsworth A good nonfiction sports book is hard to find because most authors tend to put athletes on a pedestal. There are exceptions, such as Robert Creamer’s biography of Babe […]
Book Review: When We Walked Above the Clouds: A Memoir of Vietnam
War may be hell, but it produces terrific literature, and “When We Walked Above the Clouds” by H. Lee Barnes is a cracker of a book. In the mid sixties, the author […]
WordsDay: Bearded Women by Teresa Milbrodt – a Review
“The cyclops woman squints at them, those who deem themselves unlovely, and knows that no one would look at them twice in a crowd.” – “The Cyclops” by Teresa Milbrodt… We live […]
Holocaust for soccer moms: Review – Sarah’s Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah)
by Samantha Berkhead Sarah’s Key (Elle s’appelait Sarah) US release: 2011 Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner In the earliest moments of Sarah’s Key, lead actress Kristin Scott Thomas declares that “when a story is […]
Review – Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace In A Time of Peril
by Samantha Berkhead Author: King Abdullah II of Jordan Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: New York, 2011 It seems oddly prophetic that Jordan’s King Abdullah II published his first book when he […]
Review – You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Author: Robert Lane Greene Publisher: Delacourte Press: New York, 2010 by Samantha Berkhead It’s plausible to argue that lingual differences have caused more discrimination, conflict and cultural controversy throughout history than race […]
"Bottom of the 33rd" – a tale of baseball, hope and redemption
Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry. 255 pages, $26.99, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY by John Hanchette This is a masterful non-fiction book about the game of baseball and its […]
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