Book Reviews
Category
Audiobook Review: Karen Tumulty’s “The Triumph of Nancy Reagan” Offers the Ultimate Insider’s View of ’80s Politics
Karen Tumulty’s book suggests that perhaps the best way to tell the story of the Reagan years is not through Ronnie’s eyes, but Nancy’s.
Audiobook Review: Star Wars Springs Into Its Past, Present, and Future
Three new titles dwell on the demise of the Galactic Empire; turn back to the Jedi Order’s glorious past; and head out beyond known space.
Book Review: Jan Schwochow Explains the World in 264 Infographics
Jan Schwochow’s ‘The World Explained’ is an incredible journey, demonstrating the growing fascination of infographics.
Book Review: “Tumblr Porn” Raises Alarms About the Need for Safer NSFW Spaces
Ana Valens has performed an important service for anyone who doesn’t want to see priceless community deleted with the stroke of a pen.
Audiobook Review: Star Wars Harks Back to the High Republic
Lucasfilm has opened a much-hyped multi-year publishing project set in the High Republic, hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga.
Book Review: “Cocktails of the Movies” Helps You Shake It Like a Paramount Picture
These are the drinks the characters are actually seen sipping, so the book amounts to a cultural history of cocktails.
Review: “Melissa Forti’s Christmas Baking Book” Cooks Up Dark Delights
It’s the perfect baking book for quarantine, in which home cooks have plenty of leisure to read the author’s recollections of Christmas past.
Audiobook Review: “The Empire Strikes Back” Seen “From a Certain Point of View”
With welcome diversity and boundless creativity, that long-ago, far-away galaxy has never come so gratifyingly close to our own.
Book Review: “The Return of the Russian Leviathan” Reaches Uncomfortably Close to Home
In ‘The Return of the Russian Leviathan,’ Sergei Medvedev makes clear that a strongman doesn’t actually make a country stronger.
Review: “Nightmare Before Christmas” Advent Calendar? Of Course It’s Awesome
A new Nightmare Before Christmas Advent Calendar from Insight Editions is a book-within-a-book; the outer book reveals a pop-up tree.
Audiobook Review: New “Clone Wars” Anthology Tells Star Wars “Tales of Light and Dark”
A boon for fans young and old who want to spend a little more time with some of the best Clone Wars stories, and hear them through new ears.
Book Review: “Into the Arctic Ice” Documents a Disappearing World
As the subtitle of photographer Esther Horvath’s new book ‘Into the Arctic Ice’ states, MOSAiC is ‘The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time.’