Fordlandia

by | Aug 12, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 12: The first Model T car rolled off the assembly line on this day in 1908. The “Tin Lizzie,” and the “Fordism” that came with it, have been featured in a range of literature, Huxley’s “year of our Ford” in Brave New...

Those Feet

by | Aug 11, 2013 | Book Reviews

In this “sensual history of English football,” David Winner explores the whimsical, imperial past of a quintessential British sport and its staggering impact on fandom and leisure activities around the world.

Looking for Palestine

by | Aug 10, 2013 | Book Reviews

This profound memoir about reconciling conflicting ethnic and religious identities follows second-generation Arab-American Najla Said, attempting to understand her mixed heritage in a divided post-9/11 landscape.

Milton, Wolfe, and the Angels

by | Aug 10, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 10: On this day in 1637 Edward King, a college friend of John Milton’s, drowned at sea. Milton published “Lycidas” three months later, giving the elegiac tradition one of its most famous poems and, three centuries later, giving Thomas Wolfe...