Books
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

About»

I'm a Boston-based writer and editor, covering technology, books, and music. My work has appeared in publications like The Boston Phoenix, PopMatters, ALARM Magazine and Forbes.com.


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Book Reviews»

The Fourth Part of the World
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
2009 Favorites
The Roman Forum
Boston Noir
Ulysses and Us
The Inheritance of Rome
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
The Landmark Herodotus
The Evolution of God
Meriwether Lewis
Judas: A Biography
You Are Here
Paris From The Ground Up
The Invention of Air
London Rising
Miles on Miles
Giants: Douglass and Lincoln
The Wordy Shipmates
The Black Death
Young J. Edgar
John Adams
Richard & John: Kings at War
Union 1812
How the Irish Invented Slang

Music Reviews»

These New Puritans
Clogs
Pit Er Pat
RJD2
2009 Top Tracks
2009 Favorites
Preview: Liars / Sisterworld
Trans Am
The Black Heart Procession
Fool's Gold
Castanets
Wild Beasts
Yo La Tengo
Zu
Robert Pollard
Pissed Jeans
Sax Ruins
The Horse’s Ha
Sonic Youth
Akron/Family
Takeo Toyama
Bill Callahan
Black Dice
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Arbouretum
Mi Ami

Technology»

Eco-Friendly HDTV
Travel Digital Cameras
Take Great Action Photos
Blu-Ray Primer
Tune Your HDTV
Streaming Internet Video
Best Blu-Ray Players
Best Business Laptops
Best Pocket Camcorders

Notations»

“The Federal Republic is not the place for an urban guerrilla movement in the Latin American style. The country offers, at most, suitable conditions for a gangster drama.”

The new Jed and Lucia EP, Many Many, is available on their website for only three dollars. It’s worth a lot more than that. Really excellent, particularly “Spaceman.”

Through the Sparks has a new album coming out March 23rd: Worm Moon Waining. They’re offering three new singles, plus all their previous material, including the excellent Lazarus Beach as free downloads at their website.

Movie Review:
Shutter Island
2 Stars


In Rotation

American Lives by Alicia Christiensen, ed.PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010

Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Anthony Grafton and Daniel RosenbergThe Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

Liars - SisterworldThese New Puritans - Hidden

The Collected Stories of Lydia DavisThe Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester

Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain

Suttree by Cormac McCarthyThe Roman Forum by David Watkins

Seven Fields of Aphelion – Periphery Okapi – Love Him

Ulysses and Us by Declan KilberdBoston Noir by Various, Dennis Lehane

Pit Er Pat - The Flexible EntertainerRJD2 - The Colossus