Diaper Advisory
A note to the reader warns of incontinence while reading Pete Dexter’s latest.
Robert Birnbaum
Inconceivable!
Not exactly a household name (except in certain effete and cultivated households) thespian (his credits include over a hundred movie and TV appearances—My Dinner With Andre, Shadows and Fog, Toy Story, The Princess Bride, Life on Mars among them) playwright (The Designated Mourner and The Fever) Wallace Shawn, scion
Gnashing the Scenery
An unrepentant screenwriter leads the action in Russo’s latest.
Monument
Rebecca Solnit’s latest addresses the communities that form in the wake of disaster.
Lincoln, Short and Tall
More new books about Lincoln, some more overwhelming than others.
Unnatural
A collection of thoughts about post-disaster New Orleans.
Hall of Mirrors
Ward Just’s 16th novel travels D.C. from J.F.K. to the near present.
Resistance Fighter
Iraqi writer Haifa Zangana recalls the struggle against Saddam.
Havana Review
Updates to a recent post about Cuba books.
The Beautiful Anarchist
A retrospective of “a designer’s designer.”