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.”

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28 Feb 2010

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

Texas journalist Molly Ivins gets a well deserved biography that fills in some blanks.

26 Feb 2010

Shop ’Til You Bop

Lee Eisenberg explains all manner of whys and hows about consumption.

26 Feb 2010

The Eyes and Ears of Texas

Texan-born and Texan-bred, Elmer Kelton wrote over 40 novels set in his beloved state.

25 Feb 2010

The High Priestess of Soul

Biographer Nadine Cohodas gives an account of the compelling Nina Simone.

24 Feb 2010

The Judeophobic Virus

Historian Robert S. Wistrich’s gargantuan tome on anti-Semitism takes us beyond the present day.

24 Feb 2010

Destination Unknown

Jami Attenberg’s second novel, “The Melting Season,” is an interior and exterior road trip.

22 Feb 2010

Death Be Not Proud

A renowned lawyer in the fight against the death penalty writes about the heart of the matter.

22 Feb 2010

Come Fly With Them

Billy Collins and painter David Allen Sibley make a beautiful book of poems, “Bright Wings.”

19 Feb 2010

Maltese Vulture

Set in wartime Malta, a British Army propagandist investigates a string of prostitute murders.

18 Feb 2010

Irish DNA

Trevor Byrne’s Ghosts & Lightning offers up yet another fine Irish storyteller.