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February 14, 2003
What Are They Reading?
Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald–a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002–all but a fraction of his own writing molders unattended in
Jonathan Shainin
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February 6, 2003
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books’ new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Ahdaf Soueif
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December 5, 2002
Who Will Tell the People?
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg’s story of his personal journey from being in the early 1960s a “dedicated cold warrior” who supported America’s e
David Rudenstine
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November 14, 2002
Atop the Volcano
Gioconda Belli–poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade–has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance–a romance with politics and revolution, ce
Anderson Tepper
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October 31, 2002
Taslima’s Pilgrimage
“A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners….
Meredith Tax
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September 25, 2002
Rethinking the Second Wave
A few years ago, an intellectual historian uncovered the story of Betty Friedan’s formative years as a Popular Front journalist and activist in the 1940s.
Nancy MacLean
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January 5, 2001
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December 22, 2000
Speak, Memory!
A review of Cherry, by Mary Karr; On Writing, by Stephen King; and Ghost Light, by Frank Rich.
Dan Wakefield
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December 14, 2000