Book Digest: March 20, 2006
After Fidel; Black Marks; Huey; Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929; A Public Space; Literary Lives; Manliness; The Believer; The Last Supper; American Movie Critics
Robert Birnbaum
Book Digest: March 9, 2006
Main Currents of Marxism; The Bell Jar; Oh What A Slaughter; Harry Callahan; Salvation Blues; Rousseau’s Dog; Mother’s Milk; Pike’s Folly; Legends of Modernity; Paradise Travel; The People’s Act of Love
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.
Book Digest: February 28, 2006
Ralph Eugene Meatyard; The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 25 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories; Brides and Sinners in El Chuco; New Orleans, Mon Amour; Selected Writings; Something Happened; Look at the Dark; The Big Why; Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead; The Last of Her Kind
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.
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.S. ambassador—was entitled “Literature is Freedom.” Almost no American media noted her award or cited any portions
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 new media. Open Source combines broadcasts of Lydon’s dialogues with smart people on wide-ranging topics with a
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.
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 new is old, BHL has now reprised a 19th-century classic with his 21st-century American Vertigo: Traveling
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 does perplex me. The network in question makes it up to me with its well-written medical