Michael Levin

“an absolute delight to read.”

“So why do they do this?”

This joint biography is fun to read and sheds enormous light on the relationship between two of the most influential women of the first half of the 20th century. Alice was social; Eleanor was not.

“I come not to praise The Buried Giant, but to bury it. Alas.”

There’s a reason why Peter Thiel and his merry band of “PayPal Mafia” members have created seven companies worth a billion dollars each, including PayPal, SpaceX, YouTube, and a few others you may

I try to stay on the positive side of things as much as I can, because I’m a positive kind of guy.  But once in a while, a book comes along that is so laughably obtuse that you just can’t give it a

“Bruce Feldman has written a masterpiece of a sports book, and any true fan will find fascination and delight on every page.”

“If you can’t devote the next 30 years of your life to running the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but you do have a hunger to learn more about artists and works of art . .

“Crazy Rich Asians is scathingly funny, outrageous at all times, and utterly credible.

“. . . if you’re interested in understanding Beethoven’s music in depth, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Beethoven, warts and all, is what this book is all about.”

“As long as the two faces of the Republican Party continue to talk past each other, it would appear that the GOP in 2016 will have no such similar problem.”

“Goodman clearly has had a great run, and as he puts it toward the end of his memoir, he isn’t done yet.

“Under the Wire is dramatic, brisk, entertaining at times, deeply emotional, and above all, beautifully told.

“The Everything Store provides extraordinary access to one of the great business stories of this or any other time.

“The book may be called Slow Getting Up, but if you take the time to read it, you’ll find yourself incredibly slow to put it down.

“. . . apparently in author Bushkin’s mind his requirement of confidentiality expired along with his client.

“What’s so special about The Magnificent Masters is the way in which Capps captures the way these top golfers actually approach the game of golf.

“. . . young people today have the greatest communication and creativity tools ever devised, but the stuff they’re creating stinks.”

“Kostya Kennedy writes so majestically that the reader spends half the time trying to decide if a guy like Rose deserves such high-minded prose. . . .

“The theology underlying the diet is fairly vanilla; it boils down to the message that ‘God wants you to be thin.’ Hard to argue with that. . . .

“. . . the book is long on research and short on story.”

“Carrots, anyone?”