Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of three books, most recently The Place You Love Is Gone.

Currently

  • Strong Medicine

    July 16, 2008

    An epic portrait of the Tiananmen Square protests, Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is one hell of a powerful novel.

  • Internal Combustion

    March 27, 2008 Subscribe

    Could Russell Banks be retooling himself as a fabulist?

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» The Beat

Reagan Would Fail "Purity Test" Proposed for GOP | RNC right-wingers say their ideological correctness standard for candidates is rooted in Reaganism. But the former president would flunk.
John Nichols
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» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
27 Comments
Posted at 9:18 ET

» Act Now!

Coal Country | "This is a civil war."
Peter Rothberg
82 Comments

» The Notion

A Blow to Privatization in Israel (and Perhaps Beyond) | A potentially historic ruling on prison privatization, in Israel.
Eyal Press
29 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around the Nation | The week we went Rouge. Plus, Moyers on Afghanistan.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
106 Comments

» Altercation

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