book review Articles

iGen book review

by Annika Johnson | Apr 16, 2018 | Award Winners, Features, Talon

Move aside Millennials. iGen is coming to stay, bringing their phone-obsessed, risk aversive, and stressed tendencies to the forefront of the future. They are also the topic of Jean Twenge's book...

Exposing the human condition through magic

by Jorie Schwab | Apr 8, 2015 | Arts, Award Winners, Talon

With all the magic based stories around, what does your mind believe magic should be like? Open your mind and take a look into a medley of it with The Magicians Trilogy There's a schism in literary...

The art of tyranny

by Jorie Schwab | Apr 13, 2014 | Arts, Talon

The musings of dictators reveal manipulative minds, disjointed insanity Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. Mao. Saddam. Men with one name often described with one adjective: evil. But there's another...

When the game goes too far

by Jorie Schwab | Nov 4, 2013 | Arts, Talon

When what you thought was real life turns out to be virtual, but your virtual death turns out to be real? The world that James Dashner paints in his thrilling and adventurous new book, The Eye of...

Rowling’s shot at redemption

by Jorie Schwab | Oct 7, 2013 | Arts, Talon

The Cuckoo's Calling, a book secretly penned by J.K. Rowling, proves she can still write On 14 July 2013 an obscure book written by an unknown author, Roger Galbraith, surged from 4709th on the...

A must read for all Americans

by Jorie Schwab | May 28, 2013 | Opinions, Talon

"Everything is backwards," said W. George Jameson, a lawyer who spent 33 years at the CIA. "You've got an intelligence agency fighting a war and a military organization trying to gather...