For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Stephen Amidon

From the May 2018 Issue

Bean Around the World

The Monk of Mokha

By Dave Eggers

From the December 2001 Issue

Psychological Effects of the Civil War

The Metaphysical Club: a Story of Ideas in America

By Louis Menand

From the November 1997 Issue

Lack of Money Poisoned his Soul at First

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

By Paul Auster

From the July 2016 Issue

A Breed Apart

The Sport of Kings

By C E Morgan

From the November 1988 Issue

Conspiracy of Chaos

Libra

By Don DeLillo

From the May 2003 Issue

Still Raging

Kingdom of Fear

By Hunter S Thompson

From the September 2003 Issue

Faith, Fate and Teens in America

Hey Nostradamus!

By Douglas Coupland

From the December 2004 Issue

The Art of Eccentricity

Bad Dirt

By Annie Proulx

From the September 2011 Issue

Heat of the Moment

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

By Philip Connors

From the April 2011 Issue

Driven To Succeed

His Father’s Son: Earl and Tiger Woods

By Tom Callahan

From the December 2010 Issue

Chinese Whispers

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

By Yunte Huang

From the May 2010 Issue

Superdad

Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son

By Michael Chabon

From the October 2008 Issue

Wild Bard of Woody Creek

Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson

By William McKeen

From the June 2008 Issue

High Plains Drifter

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

From the March 2008 Issue

Satire on Steroids

The Brain-dead Megaphone

By George Saunders

From the June 2012 Issue

The Spirit of Grim Grin

The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me

By Pico Iyer