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SocietyJune 15, 2012
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.
Lee Siegel
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EconomicsApril 11, 2012
Willy Loman’s Secret
Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.
Lee Siegel
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BiographyNovember 17, 2005
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 have thus far defined his works.
Lee Siegel
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October 12, 2005
Letters
OH GEORGE, POOR GEORGE…
Camarillo, Calif.
Your October 3 cover almost made me feel sorry for George W. Bush. Now cut that out!
Sasha Abramsky, Our Readers and Lee Siegel
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 15, 2005
Rushdie’s Receding Talent
It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.
Lee Siegel
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Autobiography and MemoirAugust 11, 2005
The Unexamined Life
Sean Wilsey’s new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco’s high society.
Lee Siegel
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMay 26, 2005
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FictionApril 21, 2005
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FictionMarch 24, 2005
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.
Lee Siegel
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisJanuary 27, 2005
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 together, and demand
Lee Siegel