Category Book Reviews

Amexica Review

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, they have been posting an essay a day about everything from…

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 books were for class, but the bulk were at least…

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).