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/

25 Jan 2010

The Good Shepard

Sam Shepard’s new anthology of short fiction offers his trademark humor and lyricism.

22 Jan 2010

Big Troubles

A novel set in mid-’50s Cyprus as a military couple and an empire experience dramatic change.

22 Jan 2010

Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out Redux

Arguing for Leary’s influential change agency.

21 Jan 2010

Ask Not for Whom the Bomb Ticks

Nick Flynn’s obsessions dovetail and compel.

21 Jan 2010

Miami Beach Exposed

Gerald Posner strings together an exposé as entertaining as any Carl Hiaasen novel.

20 Jan 2010

What Are Pointy Heads Good For?

George Scialabba offers a new anthology.

20 Jan 2010

Down on the Border

T. Jefferson Parker sets Iron River on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the guns flow freely south.

19 Jan 2010

Eyeful in Gaza

War reportage cartoonist Joe Sacco dusts off an ignored story of massacre.

19 Jan 2010

Letters, We Got Letters

Thomas Mallon anthologizes all manner of epistolary delights.

15 Jan 2010

Killer Rubber Duckies

Environmental activists examine check out the danger of rubber ducks.