Category: Book Reviews

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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February 25, 2011

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larson **** (of 4)

The by now famous protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, is once again assaulted, chased, and utterly alone. The plot contains full doses of sex and violence, the...

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January 26, 2011

Middle East Water Management Under Conditions of Scarcity

ES591: Middle East Water Management Under Conditions of Scarcity – Click here for the syllabus

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January 26, 2011

Squirrel seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris *** (of 4)

A very deft interplay of human characteristics and foibles overlain upon our stereotypes of animals. Thus, we meet with mice who taken in homeless animals...

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January 26, 2011

The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien *** (of 4)

A series of related stories about the life of U.S. soldiers trying to get by during the grind of the Vietnam War. O’Brien wavers across...

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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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January 3, 2011

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

This is a coming of age book set in one of the worst times and places to come of age — Panang, an island off...

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January 1, 2011

Still Life by Louise Penny *** (of 4)

An aging, blue-haired, naif artist with a secret is killed by an arrow in a small, eccentric village outside Montreal. An elegant Francophone detective interviews...

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January 1, 2011

Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

A murder mystery punctuated with serious philosophical musings, this novel traces 150 years of Filipino history, posing questions about identity and art, exile and duty.

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