Red Carpet Rundown: The 2019 Oscars | Feb 25, 2019
:sinister carnival music in the distance reaches a sudden fever pitch: Oh hey, it’s the Oscars!…
Recent Non-Fiction
Horizon | Mar 20, 2019
I reviewed Barry Lopez’s latest book, HORIZON, at NPR.org.
A Barry Lopez book is never a quick read: “Each place on Earth goes deep.”
Of course, deftly sketched landscapes are one of his chief delights — and Horizon, suspended halfway between travelogue and memoir, offers plenty of them. But Lopez…
Mary, Queen of Scots | Dec 7, 2018
Finally putting all those hours of watching Reign to good use (I did not), I reviewed the recent reissue of Stefan Zweig’s biography of Mary, Queen of Scots at NPR.
It’s a history obsessed not with “how” but “why”; facts are presented or debated with a scholar’s enthusiasm, but often…
