‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’ ‘Who Has the Best Tunes?’
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, blasphemes not only Islam and Hinduism, but Thatcherism and the advertising industry. He's unkind, too, to V.S. Naipaul. For this they want to...
Feb 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Travels With Toni Travels With Toni
John Leonard, former literary editor of The Nation, died November 6 at 69. From the archives, his iconic piece on Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize win, in his honor.
Nov 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
The Dread Zone The Dread Zone
John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magaz...
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away Wednesday, will be remembered for his brilliant, cynical and often depressing humor.
Apr 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007 Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
Jan 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is actually four stories, each replete with brilliant patter, fancy footwork, wishful thinking and a plaintive ukulele.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
These United States These United States
John Leonard edited and wrote the introduction to These United States: Portraits of America (Nation Books).
Mar 20, 2003 / Feature / John Leonard
The Jewish Cossack The Jewish Cossack
John Leonard reviews The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Looking for Mr. Goodbomb Looking for Mr. Goodbomb
Every good hunter is uneasy in the depths of his conscience when faced with the death he is about to inflict on the enchanted animal. He does not have the final and firm convicti...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Music for Chameleons Music for Chameleons
When they came for Newton Arvin, as he had always known they someday would--the sex cops, the truth squad, the Cossacks, fathers and philistines--he spilled his beings. In the cro...
Jul 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard