All Book Reviews
'The Daily Show' tells the surprising story of TV journalism made irresistibleThe improbable story of how a group of comedians turned the world of political journalism on its ear is told from the inside.
'Age of Anger' seeks to lay bare the roots of today's global intolerancePankaj Mishra looks to the past for understanding – and to the future with a question mark.
'Olive Witch' is the memoir of an outsider on a quest for belongingBorn in Nigeria to Bangladeshi parents, Hoque's journeys take her from Africa to middle-class America to an Ivy League college and finally to the country of her birth.
'You, Too, Could Write a Poem' is literary criticism at its bestNew York Times poetry critic David Orr is like the smart, provocative guy who is invited to every dinner party because he’s so insightful and makes people laugh.
'A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea' is the stunning tale of a Syrian refugeeUN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson Melissa Fleming writes the story of Doaa al-Zamel, a young Syrian refugee who is her own profile in courage.
'Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk' celebrates a remarkable NY characterA formerly fabulous ad executive walks Manhattan on New Year’s Eve in 1984.
'Dark at the Crossing' tells a compelling story set against the war in SyriaElliot Ackerman, who also wrote the critically acclaimed novel 'Green on Blue,' served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, earning a Silver Star, a Bronze Star for Valor, and a Purple Heart.
'The Age of Caesar' collects new translations of five Plutarch biosThe works in this volume form an astute grouping of figures whose interwoven families and fortunes shaped much of the political history of the Roman world in the first century BC.
'The Sun is Also a Star' is a huge YA success and a new classicThe lives of two immigrants teens collide in NYC – despite impossible odds and with unimaginable potential.
'Bill Clinton' is a balanced assessment of the 42nd president’s tenure'Bill Clinton,' like the rest of the excellent 'American Presidents' series, offers a quick sketch of early life and career, and then a thoughtful overview of time in office.
'The Bear and the Nightingale' charms with a tale set in in 14th-century RusKatherine Arden's debut novel features a clever, stalwart protagonist, determined to forge her own path in a time when women had few choices.
3 new Obama biographies by unabashed supportersAll three books have the same basic story to tell: how the nation's 44th president took office against the most openly stated across-the-board Congressional opposition of a generation.
'Rumi's Secret' offers an expanded view of the 13th-century poet and mysticThe Rumi we know today might never have emerged, if not for three profound friendships.
'The Book that Changed America' tells the deeper story of Darwin in the USDarwin's theories of evolution and natural selection would challenge the racial superiority of slavery and mold the minds of transcendentalists.
'Dorothy Day,' portrayed by her granddaughter, is a hero but not a saintDay's youngest granddaughter Kate Hennessy calls her searching biography 'a quest to find out who I am through her.'
'The Cyclist Who Went Out In the Cold' rides the Iron Curtain TrailThe Iron Curtain Trail is a 10,000-km ride through 20 countries along what was the world’s most extensive expression of divisive hostility.
'Relentless Spirit' looks beyond fame and glory for the story of Missy FranklinThis memoir told alternately by Franklin and her parents is a pull-up-a-chair-to-the kitchen-table retelling of a remarkable family story.
'How America Lost Its Secrets' depicts a darker, complicated Edward SnowdenThe image of Snowden as a brave idealist takes a pounding in this deeply researched biography.
'The Girl in Green' tells a dark, funny, poetic tale of the US in IraqA Desert Storm vet returns to Iraq 20 years later, this time on a mission of hope.
'The Unbanking of America' asks why banks no longer serve the middle classJournalist Lisa Servon has written an intelligent plea for financial justice.
