Speak Again, Memory
Greg Grandin : Non-Fiction
Readers of Fidel Castro's My Life will find explanations of the Cuban Revolution, but no apologies for its suppression of dissent.
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The Last Angry Man
Jeff Kisseloff : History
Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.
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Seeing Past the Gorgons
Barry Schwabsky : Fine Art
The New Yorker's art critic turns his eye toward the cultural summits.
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Fathers and Sons
Joseph H. Cooper : South Africa
A teacher discovers that sixty years after its publication, Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country still stirs deep emotions about fathers and errant sons.
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The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : The Short of It
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
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Victim 'Hood
Chris Lehmann : The Short of It
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
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Final Fantasy
David Waldstreicher : History
Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
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Eulogy for an Independent Bookstore
Jessica Teich
No chain stores or web sites can replace Dutton's in the hearts of the LA literati.
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The Film We Dreamed
Charles Taylor : Film
In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
2007
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The Political Doris Lessing
Dan Kellum : Public Figures & Intellectuals
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.
2006
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Pamuk's Prize
If Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk is a political writer, it is by virtue of his sympathy for what is old and faded, for what no longer matters, or what never did.
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Short Takes
Fatin Abbas & Christine Smallwood : China
Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
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Sloppy Seconds
Stuart Klawans : Publishing Industry
The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial product to another.
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Behind Enemy Lines
Raffi Khatchadourian : Osama bin Laden
New scholarship sheds light on Osama bin Laden's rhetoric, charisma and complex religious and political vision.
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John Yoo's Tortured Logic
Stephen Holmes : Law & Justice
The Berkeley law professor's carte blanche constitutionalism was a gift to the Bush Administration, offering legalistic justifications for lawless behavior.
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The World According to Karen Finley
Performance artist Karen Finley answers questions about politics, satire and her new book, a fantasy affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart.
2005
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The Tower of Babel
Jerome Charyn's Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel examines the life the revolutionary idealist murdered by Stalin in 1940 and explodes the literary myths that have thus far defined his works.
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I Wonder As I Wander
Michael Gorra : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost plumbs the mysteries of losing oneself and finding oneself in the realm of the utter unknown.
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The Uncertainty Principle
By writing a novel about a conventional novelist writing about a conventional man, J.M. Coetzee's latest work illuminates the role of the novel and cuts through typical and tired theories on fiction.
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It's a Man's, Man's World
Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men seems designed as a calculated assault on the reader.
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The Unexamined Life
Lee Siegel : Autobiography & Memoir
Sean Wilsey's new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco's high society.
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Mother Nature's Son
Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.
2004
2002
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What Are They Reading?
Arthur C. Danto : What They're Reading
A fresh look at one of Shakespeare's best comedies.
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