Saturday Evening Book Reviews

Sierra Club Books presents a striking and moving treatise on mining with COAL COUNTRY: RISING UP AGAINST MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING, edited by Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans, and Silas House.

Beth Powning’s THE SEA CAPTAIN’S WIFE struggles to capture a full endorsement at The National Post, but still, there seems to be a good bit to recommend it.

The New York Times isn’t as keen on Joshua Ferris’  sophomore effort, THE UNNAMED, as they were of his first, THEN WE CAME TO THE END.

A GOD WHO HATES by Wafa Sultan takes on human rights issues in the Syrian Muslim world from the perspective of one of their own, who happens to be a woman and a doctor.

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