I don't recognize half the seafood available out there lately. (Pongo, anyone?) And maybe that's just as well, since Taras Grescoe's muckraking profile of the fishing industry Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, really makes me think twice about eating any more fish. The book's press, including this article in … Continue reading Don’t Go Near the Water

Just when you thought there was nothing more to say about Bob Dylan, his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo has published her memoir of their time together. Rotolo was there at the beginning (that's her posed with Dylan on the cover of his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan).Her new book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir … Continue reading May Your Song Always Be Sung

I'm not going to get to it for a while, but I fully intend to read Misha Glenny's new book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld as soon as I have a spare couple evenings. Glenny, a former BBC reporter specialzing in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, is a really gripping writer; … Continue reading Eventually