A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy “I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I’m not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it’s hard to just bend […]
Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
Click to Buy Year of Our Lord : Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta Written by: T.R. Pearson Photography by: Langdon Clay Review by: Paul H. Yarbrough Year of Our Lord is a biography of an extraordinary man named Lucas McCarty who claims he is “white on the outside but black […]
Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
Click to Buy Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010) Review by Allen Mendenhall DNA technology has revolutionized our criminal justice system. The acceptance and widespread use of post-conviction DNA testing for imprisoned individuals has led to exonerations all across America. Organizations such as […]
October Read of the Month – Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals, by Tom Carhart
Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War Reviewed by Philip K. Jason Subtitled “From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War,” Sacred Ties, by Tom Carhart, aims to envision what is otherwise familiar material through a new lens. Though Civil […]
Resurrection After Exoneration
Yesterday, SLR contributor Allen Mendenhall posted a review of the new nonfiction release by John Thompson and Ronald Gauthier, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010). The book brings to light one man’s story of a wrongful conviction, and – after tremendous legal effort – his exoneration. But John Thompson […]