Reviews
The Quiet Beatle
Michael Jimenez reviews Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison by Seth Rogovoy (Oxford University Press, 2024)
A Boys’ Own Forgotten Front of World War I
Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Bob Dylan and the Solid Rock
Michael Jimenez reviews Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God by Jeffrey Edward Green (Oxford, 2024)
Always let your imagination be your guide?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon (Hurst & Co., 2025)
Don’t Buy This Jacket… Do Read This Book?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
A new book about Kant: not imperative, but interesting reading
Elizabeth Stice reviews Kant: A Revolution in Thinking by Marcus Willaschek (Harvard University Press, 2025)
California frenemies: an unsent letter
Michael Jimenez reviews Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner, 2024)
A Fair Fight
Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)
Closing Time for Leonard Cohen
Michael Jimenez reviews Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman (Bloomsbury, 2024)
The Best of All Possible Biographies?
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024)
The Right Temperament: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall by Josiah Bunting III (Knopf, 2024) and Becoming Eisenhower: How He Rose From Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander by Michael Lee Lanning (Stackpole Books, 2024)
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