Book Reviews
An author shares the real drama in her life  (05/17/2008 - Christian Science Monitor) Isabel Allende tells her own story of politics, heartache, and the joy to be found in a large and loving family.>>Read More |
When Robert Frost met Khrushchev  (05/06/2008 - Christian Science Monitor) This genre-bending bio-novel considers Frost's life through the lens of his last year and his 1962 trip to Russia.>>Read More |
The American obsession with food  (04/27/2008- Christian Science Monitor) An English professor examines America's 'gut-centricity.'>>Read More |
Bengalis replanted in American soil  (04/23/2008 - Christian Science Monitor) Pulitzer-Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri details with quiet precision the divide between American-born children and their Bengali parents in her new short-story collection "Unaccustomed Earth.">>Read More |
 The King of the High Cs (09/06/2007 - Andante) The tell-all book by Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager offers more than just the wickedly fun anecdotes we've all been gleefully anticipating. >>Read More |
 Marooned (09/05/2007 - Paste) The Sand and the Fury -- Music critics sound off on every audiophile's favorite hypothetical >>Read More |
Try, Try Again: A Guitarist's Second Time Around As a young guitarist, Glenn Kurtz won numerous awards and even played with Dizzy Gillespie. But he eventually gave up the guitar in frustration and went into academia.>>Read More |
Picking up where 'Silent Spring' left off  (08/21/2007 - Christian Science Monitor) How to help a songbird: try reading this book. Ornithologist Bridget Stutchbury brings a book about an often overlooked and important denizen of the natural world.>>Read More |
Amazing 'Harriet Tubman' tells tale of heroic woman  (08/23/2007 - News Tribune, Tacoma, WA) In "Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life," Beverly Lowry re-creates the long, heroic life of the illiterate woman who escaped from slavery, then returned to the South as many as 19 times to usher others to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.>>Read More |
India After Gandhi: profile of a titan on the rise  (08/10/2007 - Christian Science Monitor) An Indian historian examines his country's remarkable transformation into a global power.>>Read More |