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by | Apr 24, 2025

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I…

by | Apr 4, 2025

Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 688 pages, $35) “To anyone I’ve ever offended, I just want to…

by | Mar 16, 2025

Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…

by | Mar 8, 2025

Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignored the Arab-Israeli Conflict By Yardena Schwartz (Union Square…

by | Feb 23, 2025

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography By Tom Arnold-Forster (Princeton University Press, 368 pages, $35) Walter Lippmann was at one time…

by | Dec 14, 2024

Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik (Scribner, 352 pages, $30) When I saw that a new book was out entitled…

by | Nov 24, 2024

Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry By Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books, 198 pages, $20) “People’s reaction to opera…

by | Nov 19, 2024

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference By Arvind Narayanan…

by | Nov 14, 2024

Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream By…

by | Nov 13, 2024

This is a book review. Now that the election is over, I’ve got a book of my own to write….

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