by bertbaby | Apr 22, 2014 | Book Reviews
April 22: “Instead of reading Paul Ehrlich’s clash with Julian Simon as a simple…morality tale, their story can move us beyond stereotyped portrayals of environmentalists and conservatives.”
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
Dubbed “the Italian Simenon,” Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969) began his crime-writing career with books set in the USA, but quickly shifted scene closer to home, the city of Milan. In this adventure, appearing in English for the first time, his...
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
Killed last year in the infamous terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate mall, Kofi Awoonor was a national treasure in his native Ghana. His career began in 1964 with Rediscovery, and this magnum opus serves as a tribute to his entire long journey charting his...
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
The books that inspired him to write Family Life.
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
A pair of linked stories finds that, as translator Ann Jefferson relates, “[Pierre] Michon’s great theme is the precarious balance between belief and imposture, and the way the greatest aspirations can be complicated by physical desire or the equally...
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