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The View From a Treehouse of the Mind
[I don't usually post work that has not been published, but this book review got killed at the last minute, after it was too old to sell anywhere else. So...enjoy!] Fathers and sons, friends and...
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The House of Rothschild: A Memoir
October 2, 2008 When Matthew Rothschild was 8 years old, his grandfather told him a story about a little boy from Chelm who lost his name down a hole. “He was walking along the road,” his grandfather...
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A Story Stripped to the Bone
May/June 2009 For his girlfriend’s birthday, Les, the protagonist of Forrest Gander’s first novel, As a Friend, hangs a horse skull from the ceiling, douses it with lighter fluid, and sets it on fire....
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Darwin and God–-For Kids
November 20, 2009 Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith By Deborah Heiligman Henry Holt and Co., 272 pages, $18.95 Children’s book author Deborah Heiligman has been interested in religion since...
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Oy, Pioneers!
September/October 2011 Long before hipster bars and boutique hotels lured tourists to New York City’s Lower East Side, the promise of a better life drew generations of Jewish immigrants to the...
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When Part Is Lost, What of the Whole?
June 29, 2012 The World Without You By Joshua Henkin Pantheon, 336 pages, $25.95 Leo Frankel is dead. He died on July 4, 2004, while on a reporting trip in Iraq. The action of “The World Without You”...
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When Grown-Ups Do Bad Things
July/August 2012 “There are two things you are not allowed to do,” her mother said. Deborah Heiligman ’80 was sitting in her dorm room, talking on the phone with her parents in Pennsylvania. She had...
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A Story of Self-Discovery
January/February 2014 The year is 1782. As the Revolutionary War drags on, a young woman named Deborah Samson sits restlessly doing piecework in a rural Massachusetts tavern, weaving and dreaming of a...
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The Ever-Evolving First Amendment
February 10, 2008 FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT THAT WE HATE: A Biography of the First Amendment, by Anthony Lewis. Basic Books. 221 pages. $25. During the run-up to a key presidential election, Matthew Lyon...
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An inside look at life in the ghetto
GANG LEADER FOR A DAY: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Street, by Sudhir Venkatesh. Penguin. 302 pages. $25.95.February 24, 2008 In the winter of 1989, a young sociology graduate student named Sudhir...
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