Category: Book Reviews

Here's "What's Written in the Wind," my review of How to Read Nature by Tristan Gooley for "The Wall Street Journal," December 16 & 17, 2017. "[Mr. Goole...

Here’s “Things You Don't Tell Your Mudder,” my review of "It Takes a Tribe" by Will Dean and co-author Tim Adams in "The Wall Street Journal," Friday, October 1...

This one was fun! In it we get "marijuana, psychotropic mushrooms, sex, angst, friendships, cultural commentary, testicular cancer and lots of beer."

Here's my latest book review, "Beholding Hell Before Age 20," of John Freely's "The House of Memory," which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on March 16, 201...

Here's "Climb Every Mountain," my review of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering by Maurice Isserman in the May 1, 2016 issue of The New Yor...

"More than 4,000 people have reached the top of Everest. Only 376 have ever held K2’s 28,251-foot summit beneath their cold, booted feet..."