Down By the Riverside
We residents of the St. Louis area know the importance of rivers, but we can learn a lot more from Martin Doyle's The Source.
Reviews
How White Women Upheld the Fortress of Racial Segregation
McRae’s book insists that the story of racist massive resistance, much of it historically led and sustained by women, was always much more than simply a Southern or a Jim Crow phenomenon, and that it was always about much more than school segregation.
The Indefatigable Reporter As American Hero
Journalism has changed in this internet age, and Hersh is here to tell how it used to be. One cannot help but think today’s world of instant information may not be an improvement for democracy.
The Way Some People Lose
Pipes’s book works hard at making Nixon-in-winter a true conservative as he emerged from his worst days of physical and emotional wreckage after leaving Washington to become a kind of consul without portfolio, the eminence grise of the Republican Party.
How One Glass Ceiling Was Broken
The promise of intimacy offers one path to follow through Thomas’s book. An additional path rests on O’Connor’s gender—which made her “first.”
We Shall Be Released
The true beauty of A Good Cry lies in Giovanni’s ability to move between a range of sentiments, doing so in the most poignant of ways: by saying it plainly and direct.
The Cat Astir About the Room
The more you sit with these poems, the more they show their multivalence as they explore the complexities of our fast-paced, media-saturated 21st century.
What We Do For the Love of Sports
Superfans’s profiles are powerful and compassionate narratives of the men and women who identify as such, but they are not particularly insightful considerations of the broader ramifications of fan behavior.
How London Emerged as the West’s First Global Capital
The sweeping title of the book promises much. Its author delivers both a bit more and a bit less.
Why the Hemingway Monument Still Matters
It is useful and maybe refreshing that a new book by Steve Paul allows us to meet a pre-monumental Ernest Hemingway.