Autobiography and Memoir

In Our Orbit: What Was Lost In Our Orbit: What Was Lost

Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.

May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

Gramaphoons Gramaphoons

A rock bottom, a bottom line, a body in extremis all make the poems of Graham Foust quaver and reel.

Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch The Cut Man: On Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.

Feb 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

Howard Zinn

Zinn’s Critical History Zinn’s Critical History

Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

Back Talk: Terry Castle Back Talk: Terry Castle

A conversation with the author of The Professor about her affair with an older woman and the journals of Susan Sontag.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Under Siege: On Emma Williams Under Siege: On Emma Williams

A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass

Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.

Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott

La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman

Chop Shops Chop Shops

Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.

May 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor

Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis’s Narnia

Laura Miller's study of C.S. Lewis falls short of providing a coherent theory of Narnia's magic.

May 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

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