Lee Siegel

Book Critic

Lee Siegel is the author of four books, including, most recently, Are You Serious? How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly.

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 / Letters / 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

Look at Me Look at Me

Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

May 26, 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

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