Steve Weinberg | The Seattle Times

June 7, 2015 at 5:03 am

‘Pig Tales:’ a muckraking take on the modern hog farm | Book review

Barry Estabrook’s “Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat” exposes wrongdoing in the treatment of hogs as they are raised for food, but it’s...

February 22, 2015 at 5:03 am

‘Red Notice’: corruption and murder in the new Russia | Book review

Bill Browder’s memoir “Red Notice” chronicles the vast corruption within contemporary Russia, as well as one American’s effort to exact justice after the murder of...

October 12, 2014 at 5:05 am

‘Breaking In’: The rise of Sonia Sotomayor, judge for the people

‘Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice’ by Joan Biskupic Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 274 pp., $26 When Sonia Sotomayor...

August 24, 2014 at 6:05 am

Garret Keizer’s ‘Getting Schooled’: a teacher’s return

‘Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher’ by Garret Keizer Metropolitan Books, 302 pp., $27 When Garret Keizer left his rural Vermont high-school English...

December 29, 2013 at 3:03 am

Allen Salkin’s ‘From Scratch’ boils down the Food Network

“From Scratch: Inside the Food Network” by Allen Salkin Putnam, 434 pp., $27.95 Emeril. Rachael. Paula. Anthony. Giada. Mario. Jamie. Guy. Ina. Bobby. Tyler. For...

November 16, 2013 at 12:00 am

‘Dallas 1963’: dark days before the Kennedy assassination

‘Dallas 1963’ by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis Twelve/Hatchett Book Group, 384 pp., $28 It seems safe to assume that anybody literate enough to...

June 16, 2013 at 5:00 am

‘The Roberts Court:’ informed look at today’s Supreme Court

“The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution” by Marcia Coyle Simon & Schuster, 407 pp., $28 Marcia Coyle possesses the background to prove that...

May 5, 2013 at 5:00 am

‘Chasing Gideon’: shocking failures of the justice system in defending the poor

‘Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice’ by Karen Houppert New Press, 288 pp., $26.95 In the abstract, “everybody knows” that low-income individuals...

January 13, 2013 at 5:00 am

‘Divided We Fail’: The limits of desegregation

“Divided We Fail: The Story of the African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation” by Sarah Garland Beacon Press, 256 pp., $26.95...

October 5, 2012 at 5:30 am

‘The Oath’: Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court

In "The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court," New Yorker reporter Jeffrey Toobin uses his expertise on the U.S. Supreme Court to...