Samples of my book reviews

Non-fiction reviews by subject

Religious Studies and History

God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot. By Alice Hogge

The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. By James VanderKam & Peter Flint

Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages.  By Jaroslav Pelikan

People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music. By Robert Darden 

Public Health and Medicine

Exuberance: The Passion for Life. By Kay Redfield Jamison

A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease.  By Daniel Levy, M.D., and Susan Brink

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. By Ira M. Rutkow

Miscellaneous

The Best American Sex Writing 2004.  Edited by Daniel O’Connor.

Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman. By Jamie Reidy

Fiction reviews

Music of the Mill. By Luis J. Rodriguez

Die a Little.  By Megan Abbott

Everything Changes.  By Jonathan Tropper

An Imperfect Lens. By Anne Roiphe

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