Earlier Bookmarks
2006 Columns
2005 Columns
2004 Columns
- May 6, 2004: A Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and
the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis by Larry Stillman (University of
Wisconsin Press)
- April 22, 2004: The Price of
Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by
Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster)
- April 8, 2004: The Forgotten Founders by
Stewart L. Udall (Island Press)
- March 25, 2004: Mountains Beyond
Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Simon & Schuster)
- March 25, 2004: Last Car to Elysian Fields
by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
- March 11, 2004: Foul Ball: My Life and
Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park by Jim Bouton (Bulldog Publishing)
- February 26, 2004: Dude, Where's My Country?
by Michael Moore (Warner Books)
- February 12, 2004: Shameless Exploitation: In
Pursuit of the Common Good by Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner (Doubleday)
- February 5: The Last Man in Berlin by
Gaylord Dold (Sourcebooks)
- January 8:: The Hanged Man by John
Sandford (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
2003 Columns
- November 27, 2003: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them by Al Franken (Dutton)
- November 27, 2003: Absolutely American:
Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky (Houghton Mifflin Company)
- October 30, 2003: Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell (The New Press)
- October 16, 2003: American Massacre by
Sally Denton (Alfred A. Knopf)
- October 16, 2003: Seriously Funny by
Gerald Nachman (Pantheon Books)
- October 2, 2003: You Are Not a Stranger
Here by Adam Haslett (Random House)
- September 4, 2003: The Teammates: A Portrait of a
Friendship by David Halberstam (Hyperion)
- August 21, 2003: The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Doubleday)
- July 24, 2003: The Colony of Unrequited
Dreams by Wayne Johnston (Doubleday)
- July 10, 2003: Moneyball: How to Win an
Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Norton)
- June 26, 2003: The Devil in the White
City by Erik Larson (Crown)
- June 12, 2003: Artemis by Julian Stockwin
(Scribner)
- June 12, 2003: The Secret Life of
Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
- May 29, 2003: That Old Ace in the
Hole by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
- May 1, 2003: Pox: Genius,
Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden (Basic
Books, 2003)
- April 17, 2003: Blood on the
Tongue by Stephen Booth (Scribners, 2002)
- April 3, 2003: Stupid White
Men by Michael Moore (ReganBooks)
- March 6, 2003: Lone Patriot: The
Short Career of an American Militiaman by Jane Kramer (Pantheon
Books, 2002)
- February 20, 2003: Defiant Courage by
Astrid Karlsen Scott and Tore Haug (Nordic Spirit Productions, Inc.)
- February 6, 2003: Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice
Munro (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- January 23, 2003: An American
Insurrection by William Doyle (Doubleday, 2001)
- January 9, 2003: My Losing
Season by Pat Conroy (Doubleday, 2002)
2002 Columns
- December 6, 2002: Books for
Holiday Giving (Selections from the Past Year)
- November 21, 2002: The Mulberry
Empire by Philip Hensher (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
- November 7, 2002: Shakespeare for
the Modern Reader by Henry I. Christ (Writer's Showcase, 2002)
- October 24, 2002: Bitterroot
by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, 2002)
- October 10, 2002: Demon of the
Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the
Whaleship Globe by Gregory Gibson (Little, Brown and Company)
- September 26, 2002: The Real
Hero
- Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a
Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey (London: Constable, 2000)
- Lord Cochrane: Seaman, Radical,
Liberator by Christopher Lloyd (Henry Holt and Company, 1947)
- Cochrane: Britannia's Last Sea-King
by Donald Thomas (The Viking Press, 1978)
- September 19, 2002: A Beautiful
Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
- August 29, 2002: The 13th Element
by John Emsley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- August 15, 2002: The Miracle Life of
Edgar Mint by Brady Udall (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)
- August 1, 2002: Crescent and
Star: Turkey between Two Worlds by
Stephen Kinzer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
- July 25, 2002: The Nelson
Touch by Terry Coleman (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- July 4, 2002: When I Was a
Young Man by Robert Kerrey (Harcourt, Inc.)
- June 20, 2002: Harm Done by
Ruth Rendell (Doubleday, Canada, 2001)
- June 6, 2002: Fierce
Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from
the New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder (Random
House, 2001)
- May 23, 2002: Blinded by the
Right by David Brock (Crown Publishers, 2002)
- May 9, 2002: It's Been a Good
Life by Isaac Asimov (Prometheus Books)
- April 25, 2002: Lazy B by Sandra
Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day (Random House)
- April 11, 2002: The End of the Civil
War
- April 1865: The Month that Saved
America
by Jay Winik (HarperCollins, 2002)
- An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the
Confederate Government by William C. Davis (Harcourt)
- March 28, 2002: The Battle of
Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb by
George Feifer (The Lyons Press)
- March 14, 2002: Servants of the
Map by Andrea Barrett (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002)
- February 21, 2002: Uncle
Tungsten by Oliver Sachs (Alfred A. Knopf)
- February 7, 2002: A Shortage of
Engineers by Robert Grossbach (St. Martin's Press, 2001)
- January 24, 2002: Border
Crossing by Pat Barker (Farrar, Straus and Giraux)
- January 3, 2002: Lake Wobegon
Summer 1976 by Garrison Keillor (Viking, 2001)
2001 Columns
- December 13, 2001: Books for
Holiday Giving (My Favorites from the Past
Year)
- November 29, 2001: The Botany of
Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House, 2001)
- November 15, 2001: Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American
Meal by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
- November 8, 2001: Downfall: The
End
of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank (Random House,
1999)
- November 1, 2001: Carry Me
Home: Birmingham Alabama, The Climactic Battle
of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon &
Schuster, 2001)
- October 25, 2001: Vulgarians at
the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio, Raising
the Standards of Popular Culture by Steve Allen (Prometheus Books,
2001)
- October 18, 2001: The Prize Winner of
Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
- October 11, 2001: Ghost
Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War
II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides (Doubleday, 2001)
- October 4, 2001: Word Freak by
Stefan Fatsis (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
- September 27, 2001: John Adams
by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
- September 20, 2001: The Seven
Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals
Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)
- September 13, 2001: Lying about
Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David
Irving Trial by Richard J. Evans (Basic Books, 2001)
- September 6, 2001: The Right
Hand of Sleep by John Wray (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000)
- August 30, 2001: Two Books about Louise
Brooks
- Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
(University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
- Louise Brooks: A Biography by Barry
Paris (University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
- August 23, 2001: I'd Hate
Myself in the Morning: A Memoir by John Lardner, Jr. (Thunder's
Mouth Press, 2000)
- August 16, 2001: Empire Falls
by Richard Russo (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- August 9, 2001: True History
of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000)
- August 2, 2001: Nickel and
Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by
Barbara Ehrenreich (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2001)
- July 26, 2001: Four and
Twenty Bluebeards by Loren Keller (self published, 1999)
- July 19, 2001: Cassada by
James Salter (Counterpoint, 2000)
- July 12, 2001: At End of Day by
George V. Higgins (Harcourt, 2000)
- July 5, 2001: Zhukov's Greatest
Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in
Operation Mars, 1942 by David M. Glantz (University Press of
Kansas, 1999)
- June 28, 2001: A Primate's
Memoir by Robert Sapolsky (Scribner, 2001)
- June 21, 2001: Surfing the Great
Lakes: An Insider's Guide to Monster Waves
along
North America's Fresh Coast by P. L. Strazz (Big Lauter Tun Books)
- June 7, 2001: The Dead Secret
by Wilkie Collins
- May 31, 2001: Two Crime Novels by
Michael
Dibdin
- Cosi Fan Tutti (Pantheon, 1996)
- A Long Finish (Pantheon, 1998)
- May 24, 2001: Death in Holy
Orders by P. D.
James (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- May 17: Too Close to the
Falls by
Catherine Goldiner (Viking, 2001)
- May 10: Cold Flat
Junction by Martha
Grimes (Viking, 2001)
- May 3: The Executive
Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind by Elkhonon
Goldberg (NY: Oxford, 2001)
- April 26: Eagle's Cry by
David Nevin (Tom
Doherty Associates, 2000)
- April 19: McMurtry Rides Again
--
and Again
- Boone's Lick (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (Simon &
Schuster, 1999)
- April 12: Lying with the
Enemy by Tim
Binding (Caroll & Graf, 1998)
- April 5: Intensive
Care:
A Doctor's Journal by John F. Murray (University of California
Press, 2000)
- March 29: Uncle Petros &
Goldbach's
Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical
Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis (Bloomsbury)
- March 22: Anchors
Aweigh: (Two Books
about the United States Navy)
- Delilah by Marcus Goodrich
(Lyons Press, 2000, originally published in 1941)
- Sub-Chaser by Edward P.
Stafford (Warner Books, 1988)
- March 15: Where Rivers Change
Direction by Mark Spragg (University of Utah Press, 1999)
- March 8: The Pledge by
Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Boulevard, 2000)
- March 1: A Canadian
Tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate by
Maggie Siddins (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985)
- February 22: The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt (Hyperion, 2000)
- February 15: The Game of
Life: College Sports and Academic Values by James L.
Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2001)
- February 1: Wildwood Boys
by James
Carlos Blake (Avon, 2000)
- January 25: Prodigal
Summer by Barbara
Kingsolver (HarperCollins, 2000)
- January 18: A History of
Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon
Chips by Trevor Williams (Checkmark Books division of
Facts-on-File, 1987, rev. 2000)
- January 11: A Veritable Army
of Grants
- Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity
1822-1865 by Brooks
D. Simpson (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
- Grant: A Novel by Max Byrd
(Bantam Books, 2000)
- Grant Speaks by Ev Ehrlich (Warner
Books, 2000)
- That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses
S.
Grant by Richard Parry (Ballentine Books, 2000)
- January 4: The Gentleman from
New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan by
Godfrey Hodgson (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000)
2000 Columns
- December 28: Boggs: A Comedy of
Values by Lawrence Weschler (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
- December 21: Flutie by Doug
Flutie with Perry Lefko (Warwick, 1997)
- December 14: Books for Holiday
Giving
- December 7: Dream
Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger (Washington Square
Press, 2000)
- November 30: The Reader by
Bernhard Schlink (Vintage, 1995)
- November 23: One Good
Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by
Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 2000)
- November 16: The Annotated Wizard
of Oz: A Centennial Edition by L. Frank
Baum, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn (W. W. Norton, 2000)
- November 9: JonBenet: Inside the
Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas with Don Davis (St.
Martin's, 2000)
- November 2: The Architecture of the
Shakers by Julie Nicoletta (The Countrymn Press, 1995)
- October 26: You Got to Dance with
Them What Brung You by Molly Ivins (Random House, 1998)
- October 19: Two World War II
Novels
- October 12: Command
Performance:
An Actress in the Theater of Politics by Jane
Alexander (Public Affairs, 2000)
- October 5: In Code:
A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery (Profile Books,
2000)
- September 28: Stinging Trees and
Wait-a-Whiles by William Laurence (University of Chicago Press,
2000)
- September 21: Isaac's Storm:
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in
History by Eric Larson (Crown, 1999)
- September 14: The Farewell
Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza (Charlesbridge, 2000)
- September 7: Two Outstanding
Mysteries
- August 31: Gone for
Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara
(Ballentine, 2000)
- August 24: Make Believe by
Joanna
Scott (Little, Brown and Company, 2000)
- August 17: A Book about Patrick
O'Brian and
Another by him
- Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King (Henry Holt and Company,
2000)
- Hussein: An Entertainment by Patrick
O'Brian (Norton, 2000)
- August 10: Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World
by David Keys (Ballentine, 1999)
- August 3: A Positively Final
Appearance: A Journal 1996-1998 by Alec
Guinness (Viking, 1999)
- July 27: Words and
Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Stephen Pinker (Basic
Books, 1999)
- July 20: Sister Wendy's 1000
Masterpieces (DK Publishing, 1999)
- July 13: City of Light by
Lauren
Belfer (The Dial Press, 1999)
- July 6: Blackjack-33: With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone
by James Donahue (Ballentine, 1999)
- June 29: Three Books about
Boating
- June 22: The Battle of
New Orleans by Robert V. Remini (Viking, 1999)
- June 15: Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
- June 8: One More Time:
The Best of Mike Royko (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
- June 1: Two Books about Abraham
Lincoln
- Abe: A
Novel
by Richard Slotkin (Henry Holt and Company, 2000)
- Lincoln as I Knew Him:
Gossip, Tributes and Revelations
from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies(Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill, 1999)
- May 25: Genome: The
Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
(HarperCollins, 1999)
- May 11: Wrongful
Impeachment by
Evan
Mecham (Prime News Press, 1998)
- May 4: Questions about
Angels: Poems by Billy Collins (University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1999)
- April 27: The Blood of
Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine by Frank Huyler
(University of California Press, 1999)
- April 20: King Leopold's
Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial
Africa by Adam Hochschild (Houghton-Mifflin, 1999)
- April 13: Faded Coat of Blue
by Owen
Parry (Avon Books, 1999)
- April 6: The Essential Charles
Barsotti compiled and edited by Lee Lorenz (Workman, 1999)
- March 30: Sleeping with
Extraterrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety by
Wendy Kaminer (Pantheon Books, 1999)
- March 23: A Close Run
Thing: A
Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 by Allan Mallinson (Bantam
Books, 1999)
- March 16: The Animal Lover's Book of
Beastly
Murders by Patricia Highsmith (Penzler Books, 1974)
- March 9: Hard Time by Sara
Paretsky
(Delacorte Press, 1999)
- March 2: Carl Haffner's Love of the
Draw
by
Thomas Glivinic (The Harvill Press, 1999)
- February 24: Confederacy of
Dunces
and The
Neon Rainbow by John Kennedy Toole (1981 and 1989)
- February 17: Need & Greed:The Story of the Largest Ponzi Scheme in American
History by Stewart L. Weisman (Syracuse University Press, 1999)
- February 10: Memories of the Great & the
Good by Alistair Cooke (Arcade, 1999)
- February 3: In the Skin of a
Lion by
Michael Ondaatje (Knopf, 1987)
- January 27: Once upon a
Number:The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories by John Allen
Poulos (Basic Books, 1999)
- January 20: The Speedwell
Voyage: A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the 18th Century by
Kenneth Poolman (Naval Institute Press, 1999)
- January 13: These is My
Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, Arizona Territories
by
Nancy E. Turner (HarperCollins, 1998)
- January 6: White Death:
The Blizzard of '77 by Erno Rossi (Seventy Seven Press, 1999)
1999 Columns
- December 30: A Patchwork
Planet by
Anne Tyler
(Knopf, 1998)
- December 23: Walt
Whitman:
The
Song of Himself by Jerome Loving (University of California
Press,
1999)
- December 16: The Abyssinian
by Jean-Christophe Rufin (Norton, 1999)
- December 9:
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A
Medical
History of Humanity by Roy Porter (Norton, 1998)
- December 9:
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern
Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by Alan Sokol and Jean Bricmont (Picador USA, 1998)
- December 9:
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 1998)
- December 9:
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics,
Science, and
Character by Daniel J. Kevles (Norton, 1998)
- December 9:
Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
- December 9:
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian (Norton, 1999)
- December 9:
Faith of My Fathers by John McCain with Mark Salter (Random
House, 1999)
- December 9:
John McCain: An American Odyssey
by
Robert Timberg (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
- December 9:
A Maze of Murders by Roderic Jeffries (HarperCollins, 1998)
- December 9:
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus
and
Giroux, 1998)
- December 2: River
Rising: A Cherokee Odyssey by Frank Stewart
(Wohali Press, 1998)
- November 25: Mark Twain at the Buffalo
Express: Articles and
Sketches by America's Favorite Humorist, edited by Joseph B.
McCullough and Janice McIntire-Strasburg (Northern
Illinois University Press, 1999)
- November 18: Heartbreaker
by Robert Ferrigno (Pantheon, 1999)
- November 11: The Stalking
Horse by Miriam Grace Monfredo (Berkeley Prime Crime, 1998)
- November 4: Blind Eye:
How the Medical Establishment Let a
Doctor Get Away with Murder by James B. Stewart (Simon &
Schuster,
1999)