Book Reviews
Information glut is rampant. Here's our effort to filter your local bookstore.
- Beauty, Art, and Darwin Roger Sandall 10/08/2009
- It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from?
- The News of God’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated Evan Sparks 04/13/2009
- Two Economist magazine writers weigh in on the global revival of faith.
- Are the Kids All Right? Christy Hall Robinson 01/27/2009
- Emory professor Mark Bauerlein takes a dim view of the millennial generation and the digital age.
- What Women Want Laura Vanderkam 01/21/2009
- Megan Basham’s new book paints a troubling and misleading portrait of the choices facing working mothers.
- Is Talent Really That Important? Laura Vanderkam 12/16/2008
- Geoff Colvin argues that ‘deliberate practice,’ not innate ability, is the true key to world-class performance.
- Baltimore Confidential Rachel DiCarlo Currie 11/13/2008
- Peter Moskos takes us inside Charm City’s hellish eastern district and explains why some cops hate the drug war.
- All About Eve Elise Passamani 10/21/2008
- Paula Uruburu’s new book seeks to rehabilitate the image of a Gilded Age beauty.
- Understanding American Exceptionalism Karlyn Bowman 04/28/2008
- An ambitious new book explains how and why the U.S. is so different from other countries around the world.
- Still Healthy After All These Years Laura Vanderkam 04/15/2008
- Is American society prepared for the consequences of increased life expectancy? Robert Butler wants to know.
- Chasing the American Dream with $25 Evan Sparks 04/03/2008
- A fascinating new memoir challenges the notion that only dramatic government intervention can rescue the working poor.