Book Reviews

"Identity Matters"
Chicago Tribune, 2014
When I Am Yes by Cin Salach and The Walmart Republic by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart

The Everyday Wild
Boston Globe, 2013
The Urban Bestiary by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

The Nature of Fatherhood
Chicago Tribune, 2013
In the Kingdom of the Ditch by Todd Davis and Daddy Long Legs by John Price

Revisiting the Failures of Youth
Boston Globe, 2009
Do Over by Robin Hemley

Back at Home, Troubled Siblings Look for Refuge
Boston Globe, 2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson

Coming Back Home, He Finds Humor, Beauty
Boston Globe, 2008
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships a memoir by John T. Price

The Shock of the Old
Boston Globe, 2007
Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish by Joe Mackall

American Bloomsbury
The Christian Century, 2007
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever

The Last Street Before Cleveland
The Christian Century, 2007
The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage by Joe Mackall

Hearts and Minds: Gauging the Effects of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Through
the Personal Stories of Teachers, Clerics and Minorities
Boston Globe, 2005
Reviews of Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid
and The Wake of War: Encounters With the People of Iraq and Afghanistan by Anne Nivat

To Hell and Back In 'The Devil's Highway':
An Exploration of the Physical and Political Barriers Between Mexico and the US
Boston Globe, 2004
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

Bridging Dream and Memory: Lyrical Novel About a Chicago Coming-of-age
Boston Globe, 2004
I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek