Articles Written By Robert Birnbaum
Robert Birnbaum is editor-at-large at Identity Theory. All the sketchy details of his life will be (re)fabricated in his memoir-in-progress, Just Talking: How to Do Things With Words. His weblog can be found here.
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Reading
Book Digest: March 30, 2006
&My editors here regularly hector to me about my inclination for citation—as opposed to the expression of my own thoughts. Now I must say, I love my editors. [Hey,...
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Birnbaum v.
Alberto Manguel
Should “America” only include the United States? Does art criticism matter when it doesn’t account for emotions? A conversation with author Alberto Manguel about working with Borges and responding to paintings.
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Reading
Book Digest: March 20, 2006
Elsewhere on this site you will soon find a recently rediscovered, never before published conversation with Alberto Manguel, author of The History of Reading, and more recently A Reading Diary....
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Reading
Book Digest: March 9, 2006
Perhaps you are thinking, Who is this guy and why should I listen to him about books? (That is, for those who are not thinking, Who cares? or He’s...
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Birnbaum v.
Uzodinma Iweala
Politics can be dangerous in some parts of Africa, but childhood can be even more risky. A conversation with Uzodinma Iweala about what’s breaking the continent apart—and what’s holding it together.
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Reading
Book Digest: February 28, 2006
Here are some things axiomatic for me in my take on talking about books: 1) There are far too many books and writers deserving of the meager attention doled our by...
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Birnbaum v.
Andrew Delbanco
Author and Columbia professor Andrew Delbanco, named by Time as “America’s Best Social Critic,” talks about his new Melville biography—one that’s actually enjoyable to read.
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Books
Literature Is Freedom
In 2003 when Susan Sontag won the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, her acceptance speech--delivered in Frankfurt at a ceremony boycotted by the U...
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Web
Open Source
Christopher Lydon, former New York Times man, former local TV news anchor, and one-time Boston mayoral candidate and his able crew have ventured into a compelling hybrid of radio and...
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Birnbaum v.
Lisa Randall
Strings, branes, and baryogenesis—our man in Boston is guided through contemporary science by one of the country’s top theoretical physicists, Lisa Randall.
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Books
American Journey
French intellectual superstar (the French have such things) Bernard-Henri Levy, known there as BHL, was introduced to these shores with Melville House's publication of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Proving everything...
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Television
House
As an occasional TV viewer, far be it from me to question the apparently immense popularity of Fox Network's 24, though how anyone can take Kiefer Sutherland's arboreal acting style seriously...