Jack’s Blues

Review of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland

Books in Brief March 2008

Review of books from March 2008.

The Art of Losing

Ruth L. Ozeki's touching memoir is also a profound meditation on love, stories, and the difference between losing and letting go.

The Only Choice is Kindness

“Life is so difficult, how can we be anything but kind”—it was these words that inspired Sylvia Boorstein to follow the Buddhist path.

Prince of the Ascetics

Charles Johnson imagines in this short story the very moment Siddhartha became the Buddha.

The More Things Change

Review of After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow.

Books in Brief January 2008

Review of books from January 2008.

More Than Just This Body

Yee offers his thoughts on the power of yoga to bring us back to what’s truly important in our lives and to transform both body and mind.

From OM to AH: The Spiritual Evolution of Allen Ginsberg

Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics by Tony Trigilio.

Book Briefs

Alexander Gardner reviews books from Winter 2007.