America’s Golden Age by Newt Gingrich Review Bright Promise or Risk?
America’s Golden Age by Newt Gingrich arrives as a bold political forecast that links Trumpism to a projected era of … Read more
Non-Fiction
The Hidden Persuaders Is Flawed and Dated, Yet Its Warning Still Lands
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard is a 1957 exposé of how advertisers, political strategists and corporate managers used psychoanalysis … Read more
Brave New World Revisited Gets Key Facts Wrong, Yet Still Feels Urgent
Is Brave New World Revisited still worth reading in 2027? Yes, though not because Huxley forecast the future well. He … Read more
When God Doesn’t Fix It, Laura Story Finds Hope in a Broken Story
When God Doesn’t Fix It is Laura Story’s memoir about a brain tumor that was removed, a recovery that went … Read more
Shoe Dog Shows Nike Nearly Went Bust, and I Loved Every Page
Shoe Dog is the most honest business memoir I have read in years, mostly because Phil Knight admits how often … Read more
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Review From Crisis to Better Work
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is worth reading if you want a candid account of leading a business when … Read more
What Could Possibly Go Right Summary, Danny Meyer’s Failures Pay Off
What Could Possibly Go Right? is Danny Meyer’s confession of everything that went wrong, and that is exactly why it … Read more
The Savage Mind: A Reckoning with America’s Violent Legacy
The Savage Mind is not a metaphor. It is a diagnosis. In his most personal and ambitious book to date, … Read more
The Cauldron Review: Middle East History 1900-2026 Explained
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a sweeping narrative history covering 1900 … Read more
The Steps by Sylvester Stallone Summary, Raw Grit and a Few Tall Tales
The Steps by Sylvester Stallone is a 2026 memoir that covers only eight years of an 80-year life, the stretch … Read more
The Anatomy of Melancholy Summary, a Messy 1621 Cure for Overthinking
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a 1621 book by Robert Burton, an Oxford scholar and clergyman, that tries to explain … Read more
History of the Arabs Summary, Hitti’s Dazzling Classic Has Blind Spots
History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti is the 1937 Princeton classic that taught the English-speaking world who the … Read more
As a Man Thinketh Summary, Right About Habits, Wrong About Suffering
As a Man Thinketh is a short 1903 essay by the English writer James Allen that argues one thing with … Read more
The Game of Life and How to Play It Gets Fear Right, and Health Wrong
The Game of Life and How to Play It is Florence Scovel Shinn’s 1925 self-help classic that turned the Bible … Read more
Wilt Chamberlain’s Confessions: The 20,000 Women, the 100-Point Game, and Others
Wilt Chamberlain’s 1973 autobiography reveals the truth behind his 20,000 women claim, his feud with Bill Russell, and the private … Read more
Sex For Sale by Ronald Weitzer: Eye-Opening Review for 2026
Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry (2nd ed., Routledge, 2010), edited by Ronald Weitzer, is a collection … Read more
The Pathology of Normalcy Proves Normal Can Be Sick, and Offers a Cure
The Pathology of Normalcy is Erich Fromm’s short, unsettling argument that a person can be perfectly adjusted to society and … Read more
Swan Song Review, Charles Spencer’s Loving and Vengeful Diana Memoir
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is Charles Spencer’s 384-page memoir of growing up beside Princess Diana and of the six … Read more
The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell: A Review and Summary
The American Way of Killing is Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet, and it argues something most Americans don’t want … Read more
The Expectation Effect Summary and Review, Where the Science Wobbles
The Expectation Effect is David Robson’s 2022 science book arguing that what you expect from a pill, a workout, a … Read more
Freedom by Angela Merkel Review, Candid on the GDR, Stubborn on Putin
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel is the most revealing book a German chancellor has ever written about growing up … Read more