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.”

https://ourmaninboston.wordpress.com/

20 Apr 2010

Change Agents

Twenty-nine 20th-century radical commentaries.

20 Apr 2010

Off the Wall

Nancy Spero’s “Torture of Women” in book form.

19 Apr 2010

Happiness Is?

Derek Bok tries to enlighten what government and citizenry happiness have to do with each other.

18 Apr 2010

Homer Again

Zachary Mason offers 44 versions of “The Odyssey.”

16 Apr 2010

The Postman Rings Twice

The last volume in a posthumous series of poems by Pablo Neruda.

15 Apr 2010

Dirty Laundry

Nine relationships between famous writers examined for more than gossip.

14 Apr 2010

New Orleans on My Mind

Birnbaum and Tom Piazza discuss their favorite Big Easy books.

14 Apr 2010

Tinkers Redux

Literary prizes—meritorious or beauty pageants?

13 Apr 2010

The Gutenberg Galaxy

The most important book ever, according to Dave Eggers.

13 Apr 2010

Distress in Westport

Beauty fades when it confronts irrelevance.