Reviews

Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
This new edition of Papa Hemingway from Da Capo Press brings A. E. Hotchner’s famous memoir back into print for the first time in nearly a decade. First published in... Read more...
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
Einstein and Oppenheimer examines the lives of two of the 20th century’s most consequential physicists. The book is not a conventional biographical treatment of the two men, but instead takes... Read more...
E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
This is a book about a mathematical formula that nearly everyone—even those who are science-phobic—can recite, but almost no one can actually explain with the slightest degree of coherence. If... Read more...
Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies
Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies
This is the latest offering from Richard Schickel, a renowned film critic who probably knows more—and writes with greater incision—about the history of film than any contemporary reviewer. Best known... Read more...