Sunday Salon – Review of “Presumed Innocent” and “Innocent” by Scott Turow

Back when I used to do research in a defense law firm, we would have periodic case status meetings. They would always begin the same way: the senior partner would read a chapter out of one of Scott Turow’s early books demonstrating a character’s masterful command of courtroom technique. You see more examples of this [...]

Review of “Into the Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea

Note: This review is by my husband Jim, who is now totally into his inner girl. This story begins in the sleepy, remote Mexican coastal village of Tres Camarones, where most of the men have left to get work in the United States. Life is disrupted by the arrival of armed bandidos. And as apparently [...]

Review of “Sweet Misfortune” by Kevin Alan Milne

Sophie Jones spends her life tethered to the past by a horrible accident that happened twenty years ago on her ninth birthday. In a multi-vehicle collision, her parents and grandmother were killed, along with another driver. She believes she was the cause of the accident, by having distracting her father. Sophie went through several foster [...]

The Cost of Diversity

Reprinted from The Economist May 27, 2010