Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Nonfiction’
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
26 Aug 2019Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon…
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The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
17 Jul 2019I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such…
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The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
16 May 2019When I first saw the title of Michael Lewis’s 2018 book, The Fifth Risk, my associative circuitry immediately connected…
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
02 Feb 2016The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every…
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The Big Short: The Street, The Book, The Movie
22 Jan 2016There are no good guys in Adam McKay’s new movie, The Big Short, nor in the book of the same name…
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
21 Nov 2015After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert…
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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
04 Apr 2015Can we talk?!” Joan Rivers peppered her routines with her signature riff, aggressive and not a question at all, but…
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War
17 Dec 2014From my daily reading of the news coming from Washington D.C. and around the world I had thought it would…
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Making Memorial
09 Aug 2014Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a…
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A Jail Break Against the Draft
05 May 2014On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on…
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Why Do Underdogs Fight? Malcolm Gladwell Wonders…
11 Oct 2013Malcolm Gladwell, a hunter-gatherer of human behavior, and about as well known a writer as one could be, appeared at…
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A Little Kinder: An Old Friend Moves On
14 Sep 2013George Saunders, the celebrated American fiction writer, gave a commencement speech of the kind we all wish we’d had, to…
