As you may have heard, the Los Angeles Review of Books–a.k.a. “the first major, full-service book review to launch in the 21st century”–has recently gone live. For the past month, …
A Year in Books
Last night, I fulfilled one of my (admittedly geeky) New Year’s resolutions for 2010: I read 60 books in a year. Welcome to grad school! Granted, not all of those …
Travels with Herodotus
Just finished reading my first book of the year — Travels with Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuscinski — and I have to gush. Kapuscinski was the ultimate rock star foreign correspondent: He spent four decades reporting on riots, revolutions, and coups in Asia, Latin America, and Africa (surviving 40 jailings and four death sentences along the way).