Always check with your professor to make sure you understand the specific requirements of an assignment. This handout contains general guidelines. Purpose: The purpose of a book or article review is ...

This book review appeared in the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. Scholarly book reviews can be exceptionally useful. Five minutes spent reading a book review usually yields a greater ...

In “The Wreck of the Mentor,” the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling. By Blair Braverman Blair Braverman is a writer, adventurer and dog ...

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 remains one of the bloodiest and most haunting chapters of India’s freedom struggle. Today more than a century later, the horror of that day still feels difficult ...

Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies. By Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild’s most recent book is “American ...