A London Theater Tour With Arena Stage
• December 4, 2019

The tour offered six plays, two operas, three art galleries, a tour of Tate Modern, coffee with an art collector, lunch in the House of Lords, fish and chips at a gastropub and a trip to Shakespeare’s birthplace.

‘Erosion: Essays of Undoing’
• November 20, 2019

IN SEARING PROSE, THE AUTHOR LAMENTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATURAL WORLD  If you’re reading Terry Tempest Williams for the first time, you are meeting an impassioned conservationist who can […]

‘Patrimony: A True Story’
• September 25, 2019

WORTH A REVISIT: PHILIP ROTH’S PLAINSPOKEN, POIGNANT MEMOIR One of life’s toughest journeys is accompanying a loved one into old age or disability. It is a trip that will inevitably […]

‘Life of David Hockney: A Novel’
• September 11, 2019

THIS MELODRAMATIC, FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY DREW PRAISE FROM ITS REAL-LIFE SUBJECT People who know art will recognize the name of David Hockney, and those who like the artist will enjoy this […]

‘The Drama of Celebrity’
• August 21, 2019

THE CULT OF FAME FOUND AN EARLY GODDESS IN SARAH BERNHARDT “The Drama of Celebrity” by Sharon Marcus is a hybrid of biography and sociological treatise on one of the […]

‘Conversations with Abner Mikva’
• August 7, 2019

A RECENT COMPENDIUM CAPTURES THE UNVARNISHED VOICE OF THE LEGENDARY PROGRESSIVE  The Land of Lincoln has produced giant oaks in the political forest, none more majestic than Abraham himself. But […]

‘The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy’
• July 24, 2019

This slim recollection of America’s first family suffers from a lack of fresh material. Reviewed by Kitty Kelley With hundreds of Kennedy books bending library shelves (I’ve written two: “Jackie […]

‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup’
• April 6, 2019

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEFARIOUS STARTUP PLAYS GAMES WITH PEOPLE’S HEALTH? As a little girl, Elizabeth Anne Holmes was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I want […]

‘All In’ for the Georgetown Book Club
• January 23, 2019

By Kitty Kelley [Editor’s note: Usually in this space, The Georgetowner runs book reviews by author Kitty Kelley. In this issue, we switch it up and find Kelley joining a […]

‘Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch’
• January 9, 2019

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley Anyone who has followed the Kennedys knows the bar is high for books on the subject. Having been inundated for the past 50 years with hundreds […]