Reviews & Guides

After coming to know & love the work of a mature artist, it's almost always rewarding, albeit a trifle odd (maybe even artificial) to examine the youthful work of that artist, to look for hints of the ... read full review

I write this in the Upper Midwest, w/ snow a foot deep outside, and a wood-stove working hard to take the edge off the temperature in the teens. But -- the stove has some help in heating-up the place, and that... read full review

Let's get a few things said right up-front. First, this is a fun album, and a valuable one too. Second, it's increasingly difficult to find an anthology -- I refuse to use the latter-day coinage ... read full review

A quick, stimulating read, this novel is a spirited but inconsistent experiment in re-creating the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author much admired by Burke. In one sense it can be considered to be stuff le... read full review

I could write at length about this book, not simply because of my consuming interest in the subject, but because I was one of the author's students around the time this great work was published. Perhaps I... read full review