Lee Siegel

Book Critic

Lee Siegel, a regular book critic for The Nation, also writes about television for The New Republic and on art for Slate. His writing has also appeared in publications from New York Times and The New Yorker to Radical History Review and Tikkun. In 2002 he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.

Currently

  • The Tower of Babel

    November 17, 2005 Subscribe

    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.

  • Letters

    October 12, 2005 Subscribe

  • Rushdie's Receding Talent

    September 15, 2005

    It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.

  • The Unexamined Life

    August 11, 2005

    Sean Wilsey's new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco's high society.

  • Look at Me

    May 26, 2005

    Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

  • Bellow's Lonely Planet

    April 21, 2005

    The world Saul Bellow made.

  • The Imagination of Disaster

    March 24, 2005

  • The Moviegoer

    January 27, 2005

2004

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
54 Comments

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
97 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
70 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
61 Comments