Book Review: Instant City
In “Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi,” author Steve Inskeep explores Pakistan’s largest city, and looks at the impact of cities around the world that have rapidly exploded in size. The instant city, as defined by Inskeep, is a city that grows when “cataclysmic events … tilt the surface of the earth, raising the...
The Swinger tees off on Tiger’s character
Man, I wish Tiger Woods was good at golf again. The sport has been incredibly boring since Woods fell from his perch, starting with his “car accident” in 2009. I think the last golf tournament I actually watched was the 2008 U.S. Open, when Woods triumphed with a bad leg over the underdog, Rocco Mediate....
The Good Soldiers
I just finished reading The Good Soldiers, an amazing non-fiction book by David Finkel that follows the soldiers who were at the front of “the surge” in the Iraq War. The soldiers of the 2-16, as their battalion was called, were President Bush’s last hope to turn around a war that seemed to be getting...
