It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, But I Like It: Keith Richards’s “Life”
By Georgia Travers Keith Richards came from the most humble circumstances – an impoverished boy from the London factory slum of Dartford – to become…
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Hillenbrand Delivers a Profile in Courage
By Thomas Hauch Olympic runner and World War II veteran Louis Zamperini is the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller, “Unbroken” (Random House).“All he could see,…
Google: Storing Our Minds in the Cloud?
Author Nicholas Carr is a Dartmouth ’81.By Svati Narula The Shallows is based off a cover story Mr. Carr wrote for The Atlantic magazine a…
Tory Truth-Telling From Across the Pond
By Sterling C. Beard Daniel Hannan, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament from Britain, is a noted Eurosceptic and Atlanticist.I first became aware of…
D’Souza’s “Rage” a Middling Psychoanalysis
Dinesh D’Souza ’83 (and former Review editor) is currently the president of King’s College in New York City.By Elizabeth Reynolds Barack Obama’s first book, a…
Glenn Beck’s 8-Step Program to Recovery
By Michael L. Klein “We are perhaps too much inclined to think that [external invasion] is the only way a civilization can die,” writes Alexis…
Franzen’s False Cry of “Freedom”
By Melanie Wilcox Critically acclaimed American author Jonathan Franzen gained widespread attention from his 2001 novel, The Corrections, which earned him a National Book Award. …
Lewis’s “Big Short” Long on Entertainment
Michael Lewis, former Salomon Brothers trader and author of The Big Short (W.W. Norton). Image courtesy of Wokay.com.By Ke Ding Since the fateful and stunning…
Book Review: Sorkin’s First Rate Wall Street Autopsy
By Coleman E. Shear The strength of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blow-by-blow account of the financial crisis as it unfolded from 2007 to 2009 is that…
Hyped Rage Over Chicken & Waffles at UC Irvine
A tasty dish.The PC police were out in full force last week at UC Irvine, where the school’s dining services have come under heat. The…