Friday Evening Book Reviews

I liked this well-rounded and laudatory review of Charlie Haas’ debut novel, THE ENTHUSIAST . Jamie Talan presents groundbreaking information on DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION: A NEW TREATMENT SHOWS PROMISE IN THE MOST DIFFICULT CASES . Good research and good storytelling can’t help but produce good results. And so we get, via the goodly Vincent J. Cannato, AMERICAN PASSAGE: THE HISTORY OF ELLIS ISLAND . From the archives: The Christian Science Monitor reminds us of how good Michael Kimmleman’