Category: Books

Arguments about the existence of god bore me. I know my own opinion, and I don’t care about yours. I’m ambivalent about books based on...

Historically, biographies were the province of Great Men. Only army generals and presidents deserved a biography, and any lesser soul, say a minor aristocrat or...

I wanted a nap, but I had a deadline. So I tried to stack stones knowing I’d have to do it over again tomorrow anyway....

People read travel stories about places they have never been in order to vicariously experience a trip they could never take themselves. Or they read...

I read Joseph Boyden’s latest book, The Orenda, the same week that it finally became available in the U.S. But I haven’t written about it...