Books
46 posts are filed under “Books.”
2026
Note: The blog had no new posts from 2013 to 2025.
2011
- “One Good Turn” by Witold Rybczynski
- Review: “A Crack in the Edge of the World” by Simon Winchester
- Revew: “Sum” by David Eagleman
- Review: “The Yugo” by Jason Vuic
- Review: “The Mom & Pop Store” by Robert Spector
- Review: “Genghis Khan, Modern Man” by Jack Weatherford
- Review: “Behind the Cloud” by Marc Benioff
- Review: “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by Kamkwamba and Mealer
- Review: “Washington’s Crossing” by David Hackett Fischer
2010
- Review: “Illumination in the Flatwoods” by Joe Hutto
- Review: “Wooden Boats” by Michael Ruhlman
- Review: “The Good Soldiers” by David Finkel
- America the Start-Up
- Two By David Grann
- Review: “The Size of Thoughts” by Nicholson Baker
- Review: “Dirt” by David Montgomery
- Review: “The Quants” by Scott Patterson
- Review: “A Sense of the World” by Jason Roberts
- Review: “The Fourth Star” by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe
- Review: “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage
- Review: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel
- Review: “Invictus” by John Carlin
2009
- Review: “Fargo Rock City” by Chuck Klosterman
- A Building to Behold: Yale’s Beinecke Library
- Review: “Blind Man’s Bluff” by Sontag and Drew
- Onomatopoeia for Books (“The Twitter Book” by O’Reilly and Milstein)
- Review: “Chasing the Flame” by Samantha Power
- Review: “The Origin of Wealth” by Eric Beinhocker
- Review: “The Great Siege: Malta 1565” by Ernle Bradford
- Review: “100 Years of Change” by George Friedman