Books | Michael Patrick Brady
Books
Norumbega Park | Anthony Giardina
James Joyce: A Life | Edna O’Brien
My Favorite Books of 2011
420 Characters | Lou Beach
Becoming Dickens | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Saladin | Anne Marie Eddé
Broken Irish | Edward J. Delaney
Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day | Ben Loory
Heretics | Jonathan Wright
An Unfinished Revolution | Robin Blackburn
Confessions of a Young Novelist | Umberto Eco
Why Marx Was Right | Terry Eagleton
Blood Work | Holly Tucker
The S Word: Socialism | John Nichols
20 Under 40: Stories from the New Yorker
My Favorite Books of 2010
American Colossus | H.W. Brands
Listen to This | Alex Ross
Eden on the Charles | Michael Rawson
My Year of Flops | Nathan Rabin
The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years | Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Crusades | Thomas Asbridge
Blurbed | You Are Here by Christopher Potter
The Friends of Eddie Coyle | George V. Higgins
Duel at Dawn | Amir Alexander
American Lives: A Reader
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
The Fourth Part of the World | Toby Lester
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Roman Forum | David Watkin
Boston Noir | Dennis Lehane, et al.
Ulysses and Us | Declan Kiberd
My Favorite Books of 2009
The Inheritance of Rome | Chris Wickham
Marcus Aurelius: A Life | Frank McLynn
The Landmark Herodotus
The Evolution of God | Robert Wright
Meriwether Lewis | Thomas Danisi and John Jackson
Judas: A Biography | Susan Gubar
You Are Here | Christopher Potter
Paris From The Ground Up | James McGregor
John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression | John Brackett
The Invention of Air | Steven Berlin Johnson
London Rising | Leo Hollis
My Favorite Books of 2008
Miles on Miles | Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr
Giants: Douglass and Lincoln | John Stauffer
The Wordy Shipmates | Sarah Vowell
The Black Death: A Personal History | John Hatcher
Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties | Kenneth D. Ackerman
John Adams | David McCullough
Richard and John: Kings at War | Frank McLynn
Jazz: An Introduction | Bob Blumenthal
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence | A.J. Langguth
No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy
The Murder of Regilla | Sarah B. Pomeroy
Complete Blarney: Daniel Cassidy’s How The Irish Invented Slang
1776: The Illustrated Edition | David McCullough
In the Shadow of the Moon | Colin Burgess and Francis French
The Jamestown Project | Karen Ordhal Kupperman
Armchair Reader: Civil War

Notations»

12.16.11

I love this style: Carlton Banks, Kanye West, and the rise of the NBA nerd.

12.14.11

Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful response to that grotesque Forbes column that’s making the rounds.

12.01.11

The Seinfeld episode where Jerry and George have an awkward night out with Elaine’s writer father is based on a real-life event where Larry David was forced to entertain his girlfriend’s father—Richard Yates.

11.27.11

Movie Review:
The Muppets

11.18.11

I agree with this Globe editorial: veto casino gambling in Massachusetts.


In Rotation

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel ProustLolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Traveler of the Century by Andres NeumanNorumbega Park by Anthony Giardina

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, Translated by Lydia DavisJames Joyce, A Life by Edna O'Brien

420 Characters by Lou BeachSaladin by Anne Marie Edde

Becoming Dickens by Robert Douglas-FairhurstBroken Irish by Edward J. Delaney

Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben LooryAn Unfinished Revolution - Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln by Robin Blackburn

There is Power in a Union by Philip DrayWhy Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton