...the book is riveting enough, although today, some weeks after its publication, it reads like a trailer to the 200-page report from the United States Anti-Doping Agency released last month.
A promising start to a series, provided Roberts can flesh out her derivative heroine.
Gessen’s “Man Without a Face” is altogether different: part psychological profile, part conspiracy study.
Raising more questions than it answers, and far from a dry medical history lesson, this book brings droll wit to buoy this fascinating journey through "the madness business."
Although most of this book is written in flat-footed prose (largely devoid of colorful Rummyisms), this former Secretary of Defense tends to be tart — even snide — in his depictions of colleagues,...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot's meticulous, riveting account strikes a humanistic balance between sociological history, venerable portraiture and Petri dish politics.
One effect of “Where Men Win Glory,” a disappointing book that is still apt to be popular both because of its subject’s gutsy charisma and its author’s renown, will be to keep this American tragedy ve ...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
...knowing that he feared for his life and that he was killed only added to the sense of urgency of the book...Most of all, what I took away from the book was his final transformation that was sparked ...
After initially disdaining a career in food as one devoid of “meaning and purpose,” she finds both here.
