Works
Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain
Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain takes the reader on a journey across American history through the lives of exemplary men and women whose stories capture the spirit of their time and place and reveal the American character. March 26, 2020
Review of Lessons for Survival:
Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By Emily Raboteau
March 12, 2024
Review of Errand into the Maze. The Life and Work of Martha Graham.
By Deborah Jowitt
January 29, 2024
Review of Everywhere An Oink Oink
An Embnittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report
of Forty Years in Hollywood
By David Mamet
December 5, 2023
Review of Every Man for Himself and God Against All
A Memoir. By Werner Herzog. Translated by Michaelo Hofmann.
October 10, 2023
Review of The Young Man
by Annie Ernaux
September 11, 2023
Review of
Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century:
The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today
by Nick Groom
September 4, 2023
Review of Artists' Lives
by Michael Peppiatt
May 16, 2023
Review of Best Minds. How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
By Stevan M. Weine
March 27, 2003
Review of Master Slave. Husband Wife.
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Ilyon Woo
January 17, 2023
Review of Lady Director
Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond
By Joyce Chopra
December 6, 2022
Review of The Hyacinth Girl:
T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
By Lyndall Gordon
November 23, 2022
Review of The Writers
Portraits by Laura Wilson
October 17, 2022
Review of Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
By Greil Marcus
October 13, 2022
Review of Letter to the Americans
By Jean Cocteau
Translated by Alex Wermer-Colan
July 26, 2022
"Trump and Our Paradise Lost"
June 21, 2022
Review of Adventurer.
The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
By Leo Damrosch
June 2, 2022
Review of The Diary of Others
The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
1955-1966
By Anaïs Nin
March 24, 2022
Review of Spellbound by Marcel:
Duchamp, Love, and Art
By Ruth Brandon
February 28, 2022
Review of Camera Man. Buster Keaton.
The Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By Dana Stevens
January 24, 2022
Review of Freedom From Violence and Lies
Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings
By Michael C. Finke
January 11, 2022
Review of Lost in the Valley of Death
A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
By Harley Rustad
January 10, 2022
Review of Aldous Huxley
By Jake Poller
December 11, 2021
Review of Solid Ivory. Memoirs
By James Ivory
November 11, 2021
Review of The Dancing Plague
by Gareth Brookes
August 30, 2021
Review of Losing Eden
by Lucy Jones
August 9, 2021
Review of Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles
by Fermín Sólis.
Translated by Lawrence Schimel
June 23, 2021
Review of
The Appalachian Trail. A Biography
by Philip D'Anieri
June 16, 2021
Review of Freedom
by Sebastian Junger
May 17, 2021
Review of Kubrick's Men
by Richard Rambuss
April 26, 2021
Review of The Empathy Diaries
By Sherry Turkle
March 22, 2021
Essay "Lessons From the Coronavirus"
January 25, 2021
Review of The Walker. On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City
by Matthew Beaumont.
January 2, 2021
Review of Mather Schneider's 6 TO 6
December 4, 2020
Review of Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux.
October 28, 2020
Review of The Fragile Keepers, a fantasy novel by Natalie Pinter.
September 27, 2020
"Donald Trump, The Electoral College, & The Future of the Republic." How the Electoral College subverts the will of the people. July 8, 2020
"Democracy in Decline." An essay on the symptoms and causes of our imperiled democracy. June 11, 2020
"Reflections on the Pandemic." A short meditation on the opportunity the pandemic presents to recalibrate our values. May 11, 2020
"Blue Collar Blues. The Poetry of Wayne F. Burke"
Reviews Escape from Crouton. March 30, 2020
"The Meaning of Donald Trump," an essay that presents Trump as the endgame of capitalism. October 11, 2019
"Socialism Now?" An essay on the history of socialism and its resurgence in the US through the Democratic Socialists of America. October 9, 2019.
"The Cassandra Syndrome: Prediction, Uncertainty, and Fear of (Climate) Change." The complete ten-part essay. May 20, 2019.
"'My Friend the Censor': Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer." February 3, 2017.
The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur
The Unknown Henry Miller focuses on Miller’s years living in Big Sur, California, during which he wrote many of his most important books, including The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy; married and divorced twice; raised two children; painted watercolors, and tried to live out an aesthetic and personal credo of self-realization. March 14, 2014