The New York Photo League’s Radical Camera The New York Photo League’s Radical Camera
The esthetic of American social realism, especially when it was fueled by Marxist fires, may have had it right all along.
Jun 15, 2012 / Lee Siegel
Willy Loman’s Secret Willy Loman’s Secret
Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.
Apr 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
The Tower of Babel 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 hav...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Letters Letters
OH GEORGE, POOR GEORGE... Camarillo, Calif. Your October 3 cover almost made me feel sorry for George W. Bush. Now cut that out!
Oct 12, 2005 / Sasha Abramsky, Our Readers, and Lee Siegel
Rushdie’s Receding Talent Rushdie’s Receding Talent
It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.
Sep 15, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
The Unexamined Life The Unexamined Life
Sean Wilsey's new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco's high society.
Aug 11, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
Bellow’s Lonely Planet Bellow’s Lonely Planet
The world Saul Bellow made.
Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
The Imagination of Disaster The Imagination of Disaster
Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he's unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
The Moviegoer The Moviegoer
If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not tog...
Jan 27, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel