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Tag Archives: book reviews
Book Review Essay Analysis
As we’ve been talking about, you’re going to write a book review essay that follows the basic conventions of the genre. My hope is that you’re already well on your way to getting a nonfiction book, published either this year … Continue reading
Book Review Essays, Spring 2014
This term we’ll talk about book review essays a lot. I insist on tacking the word “essays” on the back end of that phrase to help differentiate between those we’ll be reading, and those which might first come to mind. … Continue reading
A Few Good Book Reviews
Here are the three book review essays I discussed in class this morning: Diane Ravitch, “Schools We Can Envy.” Hugh Eakin, “Will Saudi Arabia Ever Change?” Andrew Hacker, “How He Got It Right.” And here’s another interesting one: “Single Women … Continue reading
Still More Good Reviews
Here’s an essay by Louis Menand, who writes for The New Yorker, of The Real Romney, a biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman. I hesitated to link to this one, given the ongoing presidential campaign, but I decided to go ahead … Continue reading
More Good Reviews
These are all from the famed New York Review of Books: Freeman Dyson’s review of Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Diane Ravitch’s review of Pasi Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? … Continue reading
A Few Book Review Essays
We’ll be getting to these soon, but if you want to beat me to the punch, or you just have the time now and you’re not sure you will later, feel free to read them. I’ll be trying to guide you … Continue reading
