Patrick von Stutenzee's Book Blog

Sinners And Saints by Father Michael Seed was published by Metro Publishing. A Catholic priest tells anecdotes about well known and less w...

The word hero conveys all kinds of images to us. When writing about heroes, you would expect that an author comes up with some sort of def...

Peter Biskind’s book Star, a biography of Warren Beatty, was published by Simon & Schuster. The author tries and abysmally fails to ge...

If you ever wondered why celebrities tend to publish their invented biographies while alive, here’s one to read at all cost. The author ma...

Linguistics is a science that is at best a bit murky, at worst nationalistic and highly political; it can become a quagmire, too. The lang...