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Category Archives: Nonfiction – Science
A Review of Norman F. Cantor’s In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made (by Bethany)
The interconnection of history and science is one of my favorite topics to read about. I took a memorable interdisciplinary course in college called ‘Plagues, Science, and the Humanistic Vision,” and I’ve also taken a fair number of literature classes … Continue reading
A Review of Abraham Verghese’s The Tennis Partner
I was taught to distrust memoirs, to think of autobiography as a lesser art than fiction. I don’t remember a moment when I was taught this lesson explicitly; it is just an impression that I picked up along the way … Continue reading
A Review of Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map (by Bethany)
I still consider myself very much an amateur at reviewing works of nonfiction, even though I have been reading nonfiction relatively consistently for the last three years or so. But Steven Johnson’s chronicle of London’s 1854 cholera epidemic, titled The … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 