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| Only slightly less than I enjoy reading a good book, watching a good film, or hearing a good album is my enjoyment of a good conversation about it afterwards. Here I'll offer a substitute for such conversation: reviews with notes of both appreciation and critique for selected works of art and culture. I hope you might discover here something you come to enjoy yourself.
For another collection of my music reviews, see the repository of reviews by "octothorp" from the Live Music Archive at Archive.org. Latest Reviews |
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"Slow and Slower" My review of Richard Preston's Wild Trees and David R. Montgomery's Dirt appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Common Review. {Read on} May 14, 2008 |
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Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent Ann has read so many baby books, it's impossible for me to keep up. But if there's one childbirth book to read, this is it. {Read on} Feb 23, 2006 |
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God in the Flesh by Don Everts Let me get something out of the way immediately. Here is the worst sentence in this book: "Anyone with the time and money and inclination can become an expert in theology." {Read on} Dec 1, 2005 |
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Latino USA by Ilan Stavans As if the history of Latinos in the United States weren't interesting enough already, Ilan Stavans and the cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz pour in even more excitement in their Latino USA: A Cartoon History. {Read on} Oct 9, 2005 |
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene This classic 1940 novel might look like the story of a Mexican priest fleeing for his life from military revolutionaries (and it is). But it's also an extended meditation on the Eucharist. {Read on} Aug 26, 2005 |
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