Columns and Other Essays Collected by Subject Matter

• August 12, 2004: The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
• October 2, 2003: You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett (Random House)
• July 24, 2003: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston (Doubleday)
• 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)
• February 6, 2003: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
• November 21, 2002: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
• August 1, 2002: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)
• March 14, 2002: Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002)
• 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)
• September 6, 2001: The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray (Alfred A. Knopf, 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)
• July 26, 2001: Four and Twenty Bluebeards by Loren Keller (self published, 1999)
• July 19, 2001: Cassada by James Salter (Counterpoint, 2000)
• June 7, 2001: The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
• Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Goldiner (Viking, 2001)
• Wildwood Boys by James Carlos Blake (Avon, 2000)
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, 2000)
• Eagle's Cry by David Nevin (Tom Doherty Associates, 2000)
• Lying with the Enemy by Tim Binding (Caroll & Graf, 1998)
• Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis (Bloomsbury)
• Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg (University of Utah Press, 1999)
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (Hyperion, 2000)
• Wildwood Boys by James Carlos Blake (Avon, 2000)
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, 2000)
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage, 1995)
• War of the Rats by David L. Robbins (Bantam Books, 1999)
• Hart's War by John Katzenbach (Ballentine, 1999)
• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (Ballentine, 2000)
• Make Believe by Joanna Scott (Little, Brown and Company, 2000)
• Hussein: An Entertainment by Patrick O'Brian (Norton, 2000)
• City of Light by Lauren Belfer (The Dial Press, 1999)
• Abe: A Novel by Richard Slotkin (Henry Holt and Company, 2000)
• Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry (Avon Books, 1999)
• A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 by Allan Mallinson (Bantam Books, 1999)
• Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw by Thomas Glivinic (The Harvill Press, 1999)
• Confederacy of Dunces and The Neon Rainbow by John Kennedy Toole (1981 and 1989)
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf, 1987)
• These is My Words:The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, Arizona Territories by Nancy E. Turner (HarperCollins, 1998)
• A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler (Knopf, 1998)
• The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin (Norton, 1999)
• Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 1998)
• Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
• Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian (Norton, 1999)
• River Rising: A Cherokee Odyssey by Frank Stewart (Wohali Press, 1998)

• October 24, 2002: Bitterroot by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, 2002)
• April 19, 2002: Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
• Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg (University of Utah Press, 1999)
• These is My Words:The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, Arizona Territories by Nancy E. Turner (HarperCollins, 1998)
• Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, 1998)
• Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig (Simon & Schuster, 1996)

• January 13, 2005: Derailed by James Siegel (Warner Books, 2004)
• July 1, 2004: An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor (Hyperion)
• March 25, 2004: Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
• February 5, 2004: The Last Man in Berlin by Gaylord Dold (Sourcebooks)
• January 8, 2004: The Hanged Man by John Sandford (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
• October 30, 2003: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (The New Press)
• April 17, 2003: Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth (Scribners, 2002)
• June 20, 2002: Harm Done by Ruth Rendell (Doubleday, Canada, 2001)
• July 12, 2001: At End of Day by George V. Higgins (Harcourt, 2000)
• June 7, 2001: The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
• Two Crime Novels by Michael Dibdin
  • Cosi Fan Tutti (Pantheon, 1996)
  • A Long Finish (Pantheon, 1998)
• Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
• Cold Flat Junction by Martha Grimes (Viking, 2001)
• The Pledge by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Boulevard, 2000)
• A Canadian Tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate by Maggie Siddins (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985)
• JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas with Don Davis (St. Martin's, 2000)
• Cold Comfort: A Mystery by Scott Mackay (Carroll & Graf, 1998)
• The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter (Random House, 1999)
• The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murders by Patricia Highsmith (Penzler Books, 1974)
• Hard Time by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press, 1999)
• A Maze of Murders by Roderic Jeffries (HarperCollins, 1998)
• Heartbreaker by Robert Ferrigno (Pantheon, 1999)
• The Stalking Horse by Miriam Grace Monfredo (Berkeley Prime Crime, 1998)

• June 16, 2005: Wedding of the Waters by Peter L. Bernstein (W. W. Norton, 2005)
• December 23, 2004: The Boy's Crusade by Paul Fussell (Modern Library, 2004)
• December 9, 2004: Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, 2003)
• July 15, 2004: Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke (Free Press)
• July 1, 2004: The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto (Doubleday)
• June 17, 2004: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
• 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 8, 2004: The Forgotten Founders by Stewart L. Udall (Island Press)
• October 16, 2003: by Sally Denton (Alfred A. Knopf)
• June 26, 2003: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Crown)
• February 20, 2003: Defiant Courage by Astrid Karlsen Scott and Tore Haug (Nordic Spirit Productions, Inc.)
• January 23, 2003: An American Insurrection by William Doyle (Doubleday, 2001)
• October 10, 2002: Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe by Gregory Gibson (Little, Brown and Company)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 11, 2001: Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides (Doubleday, 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon Chips by Trevor Williams (Checkmark Books division of Facts-on-File, 1987, rev. 2000)
• 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)
• The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Godfrey Hodgson (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000)
• One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 2000)
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Eric Larson (Crown, 1999)
• Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara (Ballentine, 2000)
• Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys (Ballentine, 1999)
• Blackjack-33: With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone by James Donahue (Ballentine, 1999) Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999)
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild (Houghton-Mifflin, 1999)
• A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 by Allan Mallinson (Bantam Books, 1999)
• Memories of the Great & the Good by Alistair Cooke (Arcade, 1999)
• The Speedwell Voyage:A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the 18th Century by Kenneth Poolman (Naval Institute Press, 1999)
• White Death: The Blizzard of '77 by Erno Rossi (Seventy Seven Press, 1999)
• 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)

• April 13, 2006: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
• July 15, 2004: Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke (Free 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)
• 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)
• November 27, 2003: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken (Dutton)
• 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)
• August 1, 2002: Crescent and Star: Turkey between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
• May 23, 2002: Blinded by the Right by David Brock (Crown Publishers, 2002)
• October 25, 2001: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio, Raising the Standards of Popular Culture by Steve Allen (Prometheus Books, 2001)
• September 13, 2001: Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial by Richard J. Evans (Basic Books, 2001)
• August 2, 2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2001)
• The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Godfrey Hodgson (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000)
• You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You by Molly Ivins (Random House, 1998)
• Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics by Jane Alexander (Public Affairs, 2000)
• Wrongful Impeachment by Evan Mecham (Prime News Press, 1998)
• Memories of the Great & the Good by Alistair Cooke (Arcade, 1999)
• Faith of My Fathers by John McCain with Mark Salter (Random House, 1999)
• John McCain: An American Odyssey by Robert Timberg (Simon & Schuster, 1999)

• 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)
• Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Goldiner (Viking, 2001)
• Flutie by Doug Flutie with Perry Lefko (Warwick, 1997)
• White Death: The Blizzard of '77 by Erno Rossi (Seventy Seven Press, 1999)
• 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)

• June 6, 2002: Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder (Random House, 2001)
• January 3, 2002: Lake Wobegon Summer 1976 by Garrison Keillor (Viking, 2001)
• Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
• The Essential Charles Barsotti compiled and edited by Lee Lorenz (Workman, 1999)
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981)
• 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)

• December 9, 2004: Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, 2003)
• April 8, 2004: The Forgotten Founders by Stewart L. Udall (Island Press)
• March 11, 2004: Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park by Jim Bouton (Bulldog Publishing)
• November 27, 2003: Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky (Houghton Mifflin Company)
• February 12, 2004: Shameless Exploitation: In Pursuit of the Common Good by Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner (Doubleday)
• November 15, 2001: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
• 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)
• September 27, 2001: John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
• August 2, 2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2001)
• Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
• 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)
• 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)
• Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
• Boggs:A Comedy of Values by Lawrence Weschler (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
• The Architecture of the Shakers by Julie Nicoletta (The Countrymn Press, 1995)
• River-Horse: A Voyage Across America by William Least-Heat Moon (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)
• River Rising: A Cherokee Odyssey by Frank Stewart (Wohali Press, 1998)
• 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)

• July 29, 2004: On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy edited by Stephen Hawking (Running Press)
• September 19, 2002: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
• August 1, 2002: The 13th Element by John Emsley (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
• February 21, 2002: Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs (Alfred A. Knopf)
• November 29, 2001: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Random House, 2001)
• September 20, 2001: The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001)
• June 28, 2001: A Primate's Memoir by Robert Sapolsky (Scribner, 2001)
• A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon Chips by Trevor Williams (Checkmark Books division of Facts-on-File, 1987, rev. 2000)
• Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis (Bloomsbury)
• A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon Chips by Trevor Williams (Checkmark Books division of Facts-on-File, 1987, rev. 2000)
• One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 2000)
• In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery (Profile Books, 2000)
• Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles by William Laurence (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (HarperCollins, 1999)
• Once upon a Number:The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories by John Allen Poulos (Basic Books, 1999)
• White Death: The Blizzard of '77 by Erno Rossi (Seventy Seven Press, 1999)
• Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokol and Jean Bricmont (Picador USA, 1998)
• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character by Daniel J. Kevles (Norton, 1998)
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)