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.

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.

Jeff Kisseloff : History
Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.
Barry Schwabsky : Fine Art
The New Yorker's art critic turns his eye toward the cultural summits.
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.
Melanie Rehak : The Short of It
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
Chris Lehmann : The Short of It
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
David Waldstreicher : History
Susan Faludi's Terror Dream made a provocative splash, but therapy is no substitute for understanding reality.
Jessica Teich
No chain stores or web sites can replace Dutton's in the hearts of the LA literati.
Charles Taylor : Film
In Zeroville, Steve Erickson explores New Hollywood's promise and doom and the dissolution of cinema into spectacle.
Dan Kellum : Public Figures & Intellectuals
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is every bit as political as her predecessors.
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.
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.
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.
Raffi Khatchadourian : Osama bin Laden
New scholarship sheds light on Osama bin Laden's rhetoric, charisma and complex religious and political vision.
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.
Performance artist Karen Finley answers questions about politics, satire and her new book, a fantasy affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart.
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.
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.
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.
Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men seems designed as a calculated assault on the reader.
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.
Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions
and allegories of nature.
Arthur C. Danto : What They're Reading
A fresh look at one of Shakespeare's best comedies.



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