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IssueVol. 090 Issue 003 (August 1 2007)
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Paid articleBye-Bye Bush
SCHORR, DANIEL
Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bye-Bye Bush Forall practical purposes, President Bush’s tenure can be said to have ended, even though he will not leave office until January 20,...
Paid articleEhud Barak Redux
RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
Facing a More Complex Challenge Ehud Barak Redux By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem Ifirst became aware of a distinction between West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians in the 1980s, when I...
Paid articleSerbia's Slow Transition
KASTLEMAN, REBECCA
As the Next Generation Watches and Wonders Serbia’s Slow Transition By Rebecca Kastleman Belgrade The Capital of Serbia taunts the fledgling visitor with its uncanny sense of freedom: Cars...
Paid articleThe Roots of World War II
FRANKEL, MAX
Summer Books The Roots of World War II By Max Frankel THE LESSONS that pour from Ian Kershaw’s reenactment of the planet’s plunge into World War II offer a sobering reminder of the...
Paid articleA Willful Blurring of Memory
MERKIN, DAPHNE
A Willful Blurring of Memory Peeling the Onion By Günter Grass Translated by Michael Henry Heim Harcourt. 425 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Essayist and critic;...
Paid articleProfiles in Military Leadership
O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
Profiles in Military Leadership 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century By Stanley Weintraub Free Press. 541 pp. $30.00. Partners in...
Paid articleExploiting a Superpower Standoff
HEILBRUNN, JACOB
Exploiting a Superpower Standoff The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 By Frederick Taylor HarperCollins. 486 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, New York “Times...
Paid articleMemoir of a Chinese Maverick
ROSEN, STANLEY
Memoir of a Chinese Maverick Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China By Kang Zhengguo Translated by Susan Wilf Norton. 455 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Stanley Rosen Director, East...
Paid article'The Things We Saw!'
SOSIN, GENE
‘The Things We Saw!’ Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag By Nicolas Werth Translated by Steven Rendall Princeton. 223 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, “Sparks of Liberty:...
Paid articleSeeing Roosevelt in Full Color
GRAFF, HENRY F.
Seeing Ro o s evelt in Full Color FDR By Jean Edward Smith Random House. 860 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor emeritus of history, Columbia University; editor,...
Paid articleNot the Devil We Know
BERNSTEIN, R.B.
Not the Devil We Know Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr By Nancy Isenberg Viking. 540 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by R.B. Bernstein Author, “Thomas Jefferson”; forthcoming, “The...
Paid articleEats, Shoots and Leaves
KANFER, STEFAN
Eats, Shoots and Leaves Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject By Meryle Secrest Knopf. 242 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Meryle Secrest’s title...
Paid articleThe State of the Fourth Estate
HABERMAN, CLYDE
The State of the Fourth Estate American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media By Neil Henry University of California Press. 326 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Clyde...
Paid articleMaking a Mess
ALLEN, BROOKE
On Fiction Making aMess By Brooke Allen WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between literature and romance fiction? It’s easy enough to place honest practitioners of the latter art, like Georgette Heyer...
Paid articleThe Recurring Problem
KAMINE, MARK
The Recurring Problem The Ministry of Special Cases By Nathan Englander Knopf. 339 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Contributor, “TLS,” New York “Times Book Review,” the...
Paid articleTouching on History and Destiny
ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
Touching on History and Destiny The Yiddish Policemen’s Union By Michael Chabon HarperCollins. 411 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English; director, Institute for...
Paid articleAdvantages of a Burqa
REICH, TOVA
Advantages of a Burqa A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini Riverhead. 372 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, “My Holocaust” THE STUNNING SUCCESS of Khaled Hosseini’s first...
Paid articleTerror and Narcissism
SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
Terror and Narcissism A Day at the Beach By Helen Schulman Houghton Mifflin. 214 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, “The Writing on the Wall”; forthcoming, “The...
Paid article'Heat, Then Fuel, Then Fire'
LORENTZEN, CHRISTIAN
‘Heat, Then Fuel, Then Fire’ Falling Man By Don DeLillo Scribner. 256 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Christian Lorentzen Associate editor, “Harper’s” Don Delillo’s 9/11 novel offers...
Paid articleTrapped Between Two Worlds
WEBER, KATHARINE
Trapped Between Tw o Worlds Free Food for Millionaires By Min Jin Lee Warner. 562 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Katharine Weber Author, “Triangle,” “The Little Women,” “The Music...
Paid articleNovel Expressions of Identity
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
On Poetr y Novel Expressions of Identity By Phoebe Pettingell WHENINAHANDFUL OF WORDS they capture the salient details of a particular locale or a signal event, poets have something in...
Paid articleAfter the Graphic Novel
JACOBSON, SID
Evolution of an Art Form After the Graphic Nove l By Sid Jacobson “I T’S A GIANT LEAP from Jughead to The 9/11 Report,” began an article in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post just about a...
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