Category: Book Reviews

My review of Rinker Buck's superb new book The Oregon Trail: An American Journey, which appeared in the WSJ on 8/1/2015.

Here’s “America’s Way of War,” my review of The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Stories from Yorktown to Fallujah by Kenneth C....

Today, Jeffery Fleishman of The Los Angeles Times published “At West Point, Warriors Shaped Through Plutarch and Shakespeare,” an interesting story ...

Here’s “Slippery Slopes,” my review of Daniel Arnold’s short story collection Snowblind: Stories of Alpine Obsession, in The Wall Street...

A list of 50 notable nonfiction books curated by The Washington Post.

"The jacket copy promises irreverent adventures and peculiar characters presented in a manner far removed from that of “the typical mountaineering book.” And so...

"No Man's Land is her exploration of what it means for the United States and its soldiery to be "adrift between war and peace." She does it with the aid of lite...

Here’s “Wintry Climbs,” my review of The Calling by Barry Blanchard, which appeared in the October 11 & 12 issue of The Wall Street Journa...

My Acid Test review quoted in Newsweek