What I Learned from Bill O’Reilly and His Book about Lincoln
This story appeared in the Dec. 28, 2011 issue of Streetwise magazine. If you've ever watched a panel discussion at a convention workshop or in a museum or university setting, [...]
This story appeared in the Dec. 28, 2011 issue of Streetwise magazine. If you've ever watched a panel discussion at a convention workshop or in a museum or university setting, [...]
OK. This is more like it. The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy centering on Lisbeth Salander, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," was slow and often clumsily written. This [...]
The small boy moves through deep snow down dark streets alone to the boulevard through the cold to the lights of the churchfront past thick wood doors inside to warmth [...]
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson is a curiously lumbering thriller. It starts slowly and ends slowly. In between, the novel has more than its share of [...]
I get a lot of books for Christmas or my birthday, but the writings I've most treasured have been the autobiographies that my wife, Cathy, and our kids David and [...]
There are many ways to approach "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," the majestic, mystical and often maddening book that James Agee and Walker Evans published in 1941. I'm going [...]
Published November 25, 2011 in the National Catholic Reporter Friends of mine get angry with the Catholic Church hierarchy, and, Lord knows, there's enough reason for that. To err is [...]
You'd never know from reading "Killing Lincoln" that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative political commentator. O'Reilly, the host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, doesn't use this [...]
Andre Norton's "No Night Without Stars" landed in bookstores in 1975. That was 23 years after her book "Star Man's Son," better known as "Daybreak — 2250 A.D.," appeared in [...]
As "Tinkers" opens, George is dying. Paul Harding makes this clear with his first sentence: "George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died." By the end of [...]