Sacramento News & Review • 18th March 1993

Searching for Uncle Duke: Three Biographies Track the Twisted, Paranoid Saga of Hunter S. Thompson

Review of "Hunter" by E. Jean Carroll, "Fear and Loathing" by Paul Perry, and "When the Weird Turn Pro" by Peter Whitmer.

Trenton Times • 11th May 1997

No place to hide: Roth on the tsunami that was '60s America

Review of Philip Roth's "American Pastoral." (Also published in the Dallas Morning News, Sacramento News & Review, and Northern California Jewish Bulletin.)

Trenton Times • 6th July 1997

The Alien Next Door

Long after the echoes of fireworks fade, reverberations from another July 4 event will continue unabated. This Independence Day also marked the 50th anniversary of history's most famous UFO event; tens of thousands made pilgrimages to beleaguered Roswell, N.M., the site of the notorious 1947 weather balloon—sorry, flying saucer—crash.

Trenton Times • 27th July 1997

2000 years of 'London': You'll feel you've lived every one

Review of Edward Rutherfurd's "London: The Novel."

Sacramento News & Review • 14th January 1993

Shaking Hands with Jim Crow

Review of Walt Harrington's "Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America."

Across the Board • 3rd March 1997

Worth Noting: "Tourists," "Home From Nowhere," "Total Control," "Restoring Prosperity"

Capsule reviews of Larry Krotz's "Tourists," James Howard Kunstler's "Home From Nowhere," David Baldacci's "Total Control," and Wellford Wilms's "Restoring Prosperity."

Trenton Times • 15th October 1995

Good news! It's not racism, it's "rational discrimination"

Review of Dinesh D'Souza's "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society."

Sacramento News & Review • 1st August 1994

Reconstituted Juice: Instant Book Author Don Davis Flashes O.J. Simpson's Life Before Our Eyes

You're stuck in Safeway's 12-items-or-less lane behind a shopper who can't count. Or maybe a United Airlines clerk just announced a one-hour delay for your flight. So begins the Great Search for Reading Matter, starting with whatever's in the nearest wire rack. Lately there hasn't been much In terms of variety: Except for the Weekly World News and the Sun ("DOG FACE BABY IS 1 YR OLD"), what you've seen is the broad forehead of a certain athlete-turned-pitchman-turned-actor.

Trenton Times • 1st October 1995

Crichton's T. Rex redux

Review of Michael Crichton's "The Lost World."

Trenton Times • 21st January 2001

Series making a mark on millions

Review of "The Mark: The Beast Rules the World," by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.

New York Jewish Week • 9th April 1993

The rewards of mass murder

Review of Christopher Simpson's "The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the 20th Century."

San Diego Jewish Times • 20th June 1991

Chutzpah

Review of Alan Dershowitz's "Chutzpah."

Chico News & Review • 7th October 1993

Notes from the Underground

Review of Gina Arnold's "Route 666: The Road to Nirvana."

Trenton Times • 17th May 1998

Eschewing modern sensibilities, Smiley shines with "Lidie"

Review of Jane Smiley's "The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton."

Trenton Times • 24th September 1995

Andrew: There was no calm after this storm

Review of Carl Hiaasen's "Stormy Weather."

Trenton Times • 17th March 1996

Race, redress and the Rosewood holocaust

Review of Michael D'Orso's "Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Galled Rosewood."

Northern California Jewish Bulletin • 28th January 1994

Wouk's novel irresponsibly blends Israeli history, myth

Review of Herman Wouk's "The Hope."

Northern California Jewish Bulletin • 23rd September 1994

Anthology preserves obscurity that is Leonard Cohen

Review of Leonard Cohen's "Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs."

Across the Board • 1st September 1995

Worth Noting: "Citizen Turner," "Payback," "Crisis in Candyland," "The Agency," "Behind the Wheel at Chrysler," "War of the Worlds"

Capsule reviews of Robert and Gerald Jay Goldberg's "Citizen Turner," Daniel Fischel's "Payback," Jan Pottker's "Crisis in Candyland," Frank Rose's "The Agency," Doron Levin's "Behind the Wheel at Chrysler," and Mark Slouka's "War of the Worlds."

Los Angeles Jewish Journal • 18th December 1992

Poetic Justice: A new biography of writer/activist Allen Ginsberg

Review of Michael Schumacher's "Dharma Lion."