Category Archives: Boston College Book Reviewer
From Rotella: a new book, a NYT book review and two columns
According to a New York Times book review by English Professor Carlo Rotella, Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany — a collection of the author’s reporting, essays, short stories and drama– is a worthwhile read for Portis’ fans. Rotella, who also … Continue reading
A book review by Kearney
Author and Boston College Seeling Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney has published a review in the Irish Times of Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt. He writes: “It is a book of conversations. Conducted during the final months of … Continue reading
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Book review from historian Tom O’Connor
Author and University Historian Thomas H. O’Connor, often described as “the dean of Boston historians,” offers a review of a new book on Boston political history by Gerard O’Neill, a retired veteran political and investigative journalist. O’Connor calls O’Neill’s Rogues … Continue reading
Book review: Over the Waterfall
Founders Professor of Theology James F. Keenan, S.J., has written a book review in America magazine of Over the Waterfall by fellow moral theologian Marilyn Martone, which details her journey caring and advocating for her brain-injured daughter. “The wisdom in … Continue reading
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The remarkable life of Clarence Darrow
Law School Professor Mark Brodin reviews the new biography Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell in the Boston Globe. Brodin calls the book “masterfully researched and elegantly written.”
Writers and boxing
Boston College English Professor and American Studies Director Carlo Rotella is featured, along with writers Jack London, H.L. Mencken, Mike Lupica, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and many others, in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, a … Continue reading
More God, Less Crime
James Q. Wilson, senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, reviews More God, Less Crime by Byron R. Johnson for the Wall Street Journal. A Presidential Medal of Freedom winner and one … Continue reading
Lucky Grossman
Vasily Grossman had been one of the principal voices of anti-Nazi resistance, a legendary journalist who spent 1000 days at the front during World War II. When he died in 1964, a month before the removal of Soviet Premier Nikita … Continue reading
STM scholars pen book reviews
Two professors from the School of Theology and Ministry have book reviews in April 4 issue of America magazine. New Testament scholar Daniel Harrington, S.J., reviews Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the … Continue reading
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Review: A Compassionate Life
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Professor of Moral Theology Thomas Massaro, S.J., reviews Karen Armstrong’s new book, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, for America magazine.
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