Reviews: Books

When you think of some of the big names in literature you probably think of authors like Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Leo Tolstoy. All of them are coincidentally men. Here is a top ten list of influential women writers in honor of National Women's History Month.

"Confessions on Life, Death, and God" by PostSecret founder Frank Warren includes secrets that follow people on their journeys through life, chronicling their discoveries and feelings. Each secret is that of just one person, but at the same time it is a secret of us all.

Bosnia, part of what many of us remember as Yugoslavia, is a distant place, practically unknown to most Americans, except as stories in 1990s newspapers. Although some of our young men and women are engaged in a war today, we don’t have battles being fought in our own neighborhoods. Our youngsters are not conscripted into the military and put into life or death combat at the age of 18.

Kevin Smith has had a very unique career in the world of film. Since his 1994 cinematic debut "Clerks," a low-budget black-and-white feature concerning a day in the life of convenience store staff members, the writer/director has received a puzzling mix of positive and negative reviews for each successive release.

Lewis Black is one of the greatest comedic minds of the last thirty years. On par with such tremendous names as George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce, Black has become America's (and, more recently, the world's) premiere voice in political observation and topical humor.