View full size The appearance of a new book by Mobile writer and gourmet Eugene Walter 13 years after his death in 1998 is enough to set church bells ringing and a mammoth Mardi Gras parade rolling, preferably at the same time. Those who remember Eugene as a food writer, poet and novelist will greet [...]

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“WINDFALL: Wind Energy in America Today,” by Robert W. Righter, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, $19.95, 188 pages (nf) After finishing the book “Windfall: Wind Energy in America Today” the reader will feel like an expert in the field of wind energy. It is hard not to notice the growth of the wind energy sector [...]

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On the cover of this Sunday’s Book Review, Orlando Patterson reviews Touré’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?,” a work that examines the many meanings of being black in a post-civil-rights era. Mr. Patterson writes: For all its occasional contradictions (why the put-down of the comedian Byron Allen for his Middle American cultural fluency?) and [...]

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By coincidence,  David Goldman’s book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), came out the same time that the Financial Times dedicated a special supplement, titled “Welcome, Number Seven Billion” that gives a detailed tour around the world about population, fertility rates, and other demographic details. Also remarkably, The Economist’s lead article was about the rapidly [...]

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“The Knitting Book” from DK Publishing is an exhaustive reference book that wants to answer every question you can think of about knitting. Every dedicated knitter should have what I call a knitting bible, a reference book with good photos of techniques with clear, step-by-step instructions. There are several very good ones out there, and [...]

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