I prefer the text version of THE AMERICAN FUTURE, which Schama also did as a television miniseries. The book has more detail, depth, and information. Plus, Schama really knows how to write.

Another fine Elmore Leonard novel.

A dark masterpiece. This is the kind of work that I respect more than like. You see what the author is trying to accomplish and then you see him actually accomplish it. But it is nonetheless not easy to enjoy.

A great survey of the host of ways the Right has been holding Americans back from a better quality of life.

The Internet and other technologies have revolutionized the relationship between musicians and their fans. It has also been catastrophic for record companies and other middlemen. Good.

A fine Batman story, but the Batman-on-the-edge-of-insanity thing was getting old even before . . . what happens in Morrison's FINAL CRISIS.

Everything you've always wanted to know about Jimmie Rodgers . . . and considerably more.

This is a rich, thick study of the way markets and finance have helped craft American society. Deserves to be read and then re-read.

Messy and at times incoherent, but also at times has many of the marks of a masterpiece.

I love the way Ellis handles the dialogue and the moment when, at a moment of tension, Armor reveals that she has been chatting with friends via Twitter is a classic, but over all this is not a distinguished follow up to Joss Whedon's run on the series. It is certainly not up to Ellis's usual high standards.

A tremendously entertaining and informative trek through the world of the police and underworld of the L.A. of Chief William Parker and gangster Mickey Cohen.

An excellent biography of the man

Even better the second time through.

One of the best superhero comics of recent years. What if the world's most powerful hero were to turn unforgivably evil?

Solid, but the exposition is not as clear as most in Oxford's Very Short Introduction series.