My Wall Street Journal Review of Vanished, by Wil S. Hylton
My review of Vanished, by Wil S. Hylton, in the Wall Street Journal
Category: Book Reviews
My thoughts on books
In honor of what is perhaps my very favorite piece of narrative non-fiction…
footage of Seabiscuit's match race with War Admiral, which took place 75 years ago today, on 1 November, 1938, with 40 million Americans glued to their radios....
My WSJ review of The Mountain, by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Here’s “An Easy Day for a Lady,” my review of The Mountain: My Time on Everest by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts, which appeared in The Wall St...
War by Sebastian Junger
War by Sebastian Junger Riveting. I couldn’t put the damn thing down. Kept me awake into the wee hours of Sunday morning. Story of hardcore combat that fo...
Shattered Sword, the best battle narrative I’ve ever read
My review of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, the best battle narrative I've ever read.
My review of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard
“Sir, I just can’t get over all these God-damned stars”; My review of Paul Bogard's paean to darkness, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Ag...
Book cover mashup
Photo mashup of the covers of the books I've written.
Let There Be Night
Link to an Atlantic article that features Paul Bogard's book The End of Night: Searching for Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light.
Savage Continent by Keith Lowe, NPR Fresh Air interview
Link to NPR Terry Gross "Fresh Air" interview with Savage Continent author Keith Lowe
Worthwhile but less well-known books from my list of 400
Last week, when I posted the list of 400 books I’ve read since I started writing Enduring Patagonia in early 2000, I promised to fish out some of the more...