Category: Reviews

Loyal readers of this blog will know that I am a sucker for a short, well-packaged book on an interesting topic. So it is no surprise that I was snared into pic...

Continuing on my reading of fantasy fiction with religious themes I decided to finally read A Canticle for Leibowitz. It is a classic of science fiction and I h...

As I have mentioned before, I have fallen behind in my book reviews. Despite slacking off a bit in my reading, I have read three books and failed to post a revi...

Two views on Don DeLillo’s new book Cosmopolis – John Updike in The New Yorker: In a land of chunky, garish, anxiousto-please books, Don DeLillo?s t...

Given my discussion of conservatism and foreign policy, I thought you might like to check out a few books that are in my library that touch on this subject. Thi...

In my continuing run through the Penguin Lives Series, I have just finished Abraham Lincoln. What stuck me as I was reading was the similarities between Lincoln...