Coyote Warrior

One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial that Forged a Nation

By

Paul VanDevelder

(Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages,  $26.95)

Reviewed by Thornton Sully

Here ’s a remarkable 800 number you might want to jot down:
800—the total number of treaties negotiated between Uncle Sam and America’s [...]

Braving Home
–Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-side Inn, and other Extreme Locales–
By Jake Halpern
(Houghton Mifflin, 240 pages)
Reviewed by
Thornton Sully

When God issues eviction notices it is not delivered by U.S. mail, but comes instead in the form of flood, of [...]

A reviewer never judges a book, but puts it in a context that connects to the day-to-day lives of whoever opens the covers.

One of my greatest pleasures has been to critique the work of others for The San Diego Union Tribune and other publications. Reviewing is [...]