...a novel of the St. Michael's Orphanage

Hopewell, New Jersey

A Home Run

True To Life

Caught Looking

Good and Bad Memories

Fascinating Work

Orphanage Life in central New Jersey




Food

The Food of Spain

The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance

 

Robert Taylor Brewer lived in Spain for three years and here reviews the food of Spain
 
 

History

Europe, The Struggle For Supremacy

Flight of the Eagle: Grand Strategies That Brought America to World Leadership

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

 

 

Robert Taylor Brewer reviews the book JFK's Last 100 Days
Robert Taylor Brewer describes economic and social conditions in the United States in his review of the book Flight of the Eagle
Robert Taylor Brewer describes the Wall Street Culture that spawned The Great Recession is his review of the book Why I Left Goldman Sachs
Robert Taylor Brewer comments on the 1946 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals in the book The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

 Finance and Economics

Why I Left Goldman Sachs

American Drive

Boomerang

Inside Job

The Devil's Derivitives

 

Robert Taylor Brewer documents the culture of cronyism and the development of credit default swaps uncovered in the Academy Award winning documentary film Inside Job
Michael Douglas has become a poster boy for Wall Street excess as Robert Taylor Brewer reviews the book Why I Left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith
Robert Taylor Brewer reviews the book American Drive
The use of pressure tactics by special interest groups come under discussion in this review of the Michael Lewis book Boomerang by Robert Taylor Brewer
Robert Taylor Brewer reviews the book The Devil's Derivatives
Financial ticks on a chart depict the diverging world of economic alliances that make or break Wall Street traders

 

Military History

What It's Like To Go To War

Afghanistan: How The West Lost Its Way

The Triple Agent: The al Queda Mole Who Infiltrated The CIA

Robert Taylor Brewer reviews the book The Triple Agent by Joby Warrick

 

Essays 

Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

Farther Away by Jonathan Frazen

Always Watch For The Terms by Kenneth Burke

 

Science

The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes The Mind

Letters To A Young Scientist

Distrust That Particular Flavor

The Power Of Music: Pioneering Discoveries In The New Science Of Song

Sports 

Affirmed: The Last Triple Crown Winner

The Victory Season: The End Of World War II and The Birth Of Baseball's Golden Age

Francona: The Red Sox Years

Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero

 

American Literature

Russell Banks:  Lost Memory of  Skin                                                                    Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang

Richard Ford: Canada

Robert Taylor reviews the netherworld of crime and corruption created by Russell Banks in his novel Lost Memory Of Skin
 

 

 

Albanian Literature

The Fall Of The Stone City                                                                                            

The Accident

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories 

Broken April

 

 

 
 

Cinema

 TCM Vault: The Humphrey Bogart Columbia Pictures Collection                        TCM Greatest Film Classics

World On A Wire directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder                                         The Paul Newman Collection

Roger Ebert: Life Itself, A Memoir                                                                                     Lincoln