Gods Without MenHari Kunzru384 pages, hardcover: $26.95.Knopf, 2012. The setup to Gods Without Men may sound like the beginning of a bad joke: “A Sikh, a hippie, and a monk walk out to the desert. …” But there’s nothing clichéd about British novelist Hari Kunzru’s latest work. Kunzru’s mosaic of a story envisions history lapping […]
Martin Connelly
Posted inOctober 17, 2011: A Burning Problem
Chronicles of the ‘Cowboy Candidate,’ a review of Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician’s Quest for Recovery in the American WestRoger L. Di Silvestro320 pages, hardcover: $27.Walker Books, 2011. With its obsessive inclusion of seemingly every grouse the future president shot, every letter he wrote, and every meeting he chaired during his stay in the West, Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands […]