Category: NON FICTION

July 2, 2011

The Eichmann Trial by Deborah Lipstadt *** (of 4)

In 2001 Deborah Lipstadt was brought to trial in Britain for libeling by David Irving in Britain after she described him as a Holocaust denier. ...

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June 22, 2011

The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb *** (of 4)

Until the 1950s scientists and athletes believed that running a mile in under four minutes was physiologically impossible when suddenly three athletes — a Brit,...

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May 22, 2011

Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry

The story of the longest baseball game on record: A 33-inning minor league game. Apparently full of philosophy, “Because we are bound by duty. Because...

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May 1, 2011

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff **** (of 4)

Stacy Schiff doesn’t just bring the most powerful woman in history to life, she brings her readers on location. We face every decision Cleopatra contends...

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May 1, 2011

Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles ** (of 4)

It had great promise. An A to Z series of essays on the most numerous, weighty, and least talked about organisms on earth chronicled by...

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April 3, 2011

Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat *** (of 4)

Twelve essays by Danticat as she wrestles with the meaning of being an immigrant — neither from here, nor there — and the devastating history...

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March 22, 2011

India Calling by Anand Giridharadas *** (of 4)

A young NY Times journalist, Anand Giridharadas was born and raised in the U.S. to parents who immigrated from India to escape that country’s stultifying...

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February 25, 2011

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley ** (of 4)

After briefly summarizing the anti-Semitic atmosphere under which Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused, convicted, and imprisoned for treason by France military and political authorities, Begley...

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January 9, 2011

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson **** (of 4)

Immediately following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation most African Americans in the south were subject to what we today would call a campaign...

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September 8, 2010

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neal Sheehan ** (of 4)

Bennie Schriever invents and promotes Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles to assure the mutual destruction of the Soviet Union (and the world) in the event that...

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