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This is a list of my writings sorted by publication.

Agni

Message from Room 101 Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest, W. W. Norton, 317 pages, $27.95. WISTFUL THINKING ABOUT THE POLITICAL WEEKLIES THE SEALED ENVELOPE Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said, Knopf, 380 pages, $25.00. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch. The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century and Interpretation to Social Criticism By Michael Walzer. The Closing of the American Mind. By Alan Bloom. Simon & Shuster. C. S. Lewis: Beloved Tormentor

Bidoun

Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran by Danny Postel

Boston Book Review

Pasolini Requiem. By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon, 785 pages, $35.00.

Boston Globe

The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Contemplative Science by Alan Wallace Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin and God's Universe by Owen Gingerich Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics by Paul Ormerod and by Thomas Schelling America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins and From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier. In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer. Love’s Confusionsby C.D.C. Reeve. Harvard University Press, 224 pages, $24.95, and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Livesby Simon Goldhill, University of Chicago Press, 335 pages, $27.50. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press, 580 pages, $24.95. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz. Wesleyan University Press, 267 pages, $24.95. Why Read? by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury Press, 160 pages, $21.95 and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Lifeby Stanley Cavell. In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $28. Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Oxford University Press and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor. Beacon Press, 353 Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky, Knopf, 429 pp., $30. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, 389 pages, $25 and Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 278 Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning, North Point Press; Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, Norton; and The Coming Generational Storm The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. Knopf, 432 pages, $30, and Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, 357 pp, $24.95; Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou. MIT Press, 284 pp., $24.95; and Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur Danto, Open Court, 167 pp., $19.95 and Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue, Yale University Press, 209 pp., $24.95. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95. The Baffler: A Literary and Cultural Review PO Box 378293, Chicago IL 60637 and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahy. Norton, 404 pp., $24.95. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price. Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett. Emerson by Lawrence Buell The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95. Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95. One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 450 pages, $26.95. The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 351 pp., $26.00. Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall. The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 806 pages, $40. Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz. Norton, 282 pp., $24.95. The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama, The Free Press, 354 pp., $26.00. Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. Norton, 1152 pages, $39.95 A Jacques Barzun Reader, edited by Michael Murray, HarperCollins, 615 pages, $29.95. John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky. Viking, 580 pp., $34.95. In Siberia by Colin Thubron. HarperCollins, 286 pages, $26. Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidenow. Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 340 pages, $24.00. The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00 The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00 River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00. All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa. Rowman and Littlefield, 549 pages, $35.00. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95. Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter. Yale University Press, 946 pages, $35 and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron. Viking, 986 pages, $40. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95. John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun In Babylon by Marcel Moring, translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. William Morrow, 417 pages, $24. The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00. The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson. Free Press, 480 pp., $30. In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance by David Thomson. Knopf, 330 pp. $27.50. Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, 474 pages, $32. The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 536 pp., $29.95. More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike. Knopf, 900 pages, $35.00. T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon. Norton, 721 pp., $35 Jonathan Swift: A Portrait by Victoria Glendinning. Henry Holt, 324 pp., $35.00 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould. Library of Contemporary Thought, 241 pp., $18.95 and The Secular Mind by Robert Coles. Princeton Univ. Press, 189 pp., $19.95. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00. The Memoirs of Elias Canetti, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 834 pp., $40. The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Knopf, 253 pp., $25.00 Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40 The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, Knopf, 710 pages, $50. An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50. Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West, edited by Page Stegner. Henry Holt, 359 pp., $25.00. Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass, Houghton, Mifflin, 445 pp., $25.00 The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter. Norton, 831 pp., $35.00 Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace, 466 pp., $35.00. Keats by Andrew Motion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 636 pp., $35.00. How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. Norton, 660 pp., $29.95 and The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon. Norton, 527 pp., $27.95. The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David Noble. Knopf, 304 pp., $26. Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff. Knopf, 516 pp., $30. Children of Darkness and Light by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95. George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Allen Lane/Penguin, 465 pp., $32.95. The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 318 pp., $24.95. Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins. Random House, 698 pp., $35.00; The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History by Travis L. Crosby. Yale University Press, 287 pp. My Other Life by Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, 456 pp. Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 511 pp., $35.00 The History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Viking, 372 pp., $26.95. Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedyby John Patrick Diggins. Basic Books, 334 pp., $35. Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95. The Siren and Selected Writings by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, David Gilmour, and Guido Waldman. Edited by David Gilmour. Harvill, 185 pp., $24.00. H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot. Counterpoint, 344 pp., $29.00. Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol. The Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume IV: The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. Norton, 463 Pp., $29.95. A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolutionby Michael Lind. The Free Press, 436 pp., $25.00. Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50. Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50. God: A Biography. By Jack Miles. Knopf 446 pp. $27.50. Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism. By Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 291pp., $25. The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf, $24. ; The Revolt of the Elites. By Christopher Lasch. Norton, $22. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00 The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00. Just Curious: Essays by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 248 pp., $21.95. A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints edited by Paul Elie, with an introduction by Robert Coles. Harcourt Brace, 325 pp., $22.00. Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia. Vintage Books, 532 pp., $15.00. Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930sby Hope Hale Davis. Steerforth Press, 337 pp., $24.00 The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso. Harvard University Press, 385 Pp., $24.95. In Defense of Elitism. By William A. Henry III. Doubleday, 212 pages. $20. Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00. Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95 The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50. Antipolitics: An Essay By George Konrad. Translated by Richard E. Allen. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 243 pp. $12.95.

Boston Phoenix

Chomsky for Beginners Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture Edited by Todd Gitlin. Pantheon Books, 248 pages, $9.95 (paper). Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir by Richard Gilman. Simon & Schuster, $16.95. Sicilian Uncles by Leonardo Sciascia. Translated by N. S. Thompson. Carcanet, 205 pages, $15.95. Roger’s Version by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 329 pages, $17.95. Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex by Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 228 pages, $15.95. A Fool For Love: D.H. Lawrence at 100 The Reagan Counterrevolution. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Pantheon, 391 pages, $9.95 (paper). Nicaragua and the National Interest The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times. By Christopher Lasch. Norton. 317 pages, $16.95. The Arts Without Mystery. By Denis Donoghue. Little, Brown, 151 pages, $15.95. Dwight Macdonald The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 . Edited by Jackson Lears and Richard Wightman Fox. Pantheon, 236 pages, $9.95 paper. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky. South End Press, 481 pages, $10 paper. Vietnam: A Television History, PBS The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. By Seymour Hersh. Summit Books, 698 pages, $19.95. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. By Marshall Berman. Simon & Shuster, 383 pages, $6.95). All That Is Solid Melts into Air by Marshall Berman. Simon & Schuster, 383 pages, $6.95. The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon. By Jacobo Timerman. Knopf, 167 pages, $11.95. Intellectual Provocateur: Susan Sontag: A Partisan’s Review

Boston Review

Charisma: The Gift of Grace and How It Has Been Taken from Us by Philip Rieff. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben, Times Books, 271 pages, $25. The Blame Game: Afterthoughts of a Nader Voter by George Scialabba The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Politics and Culture in the Era of the Cold War by Hilton Kramer. Ivan R. Dee, 363 pages, $27.50. The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick. Beacon Press, 165 pp., $20.00. Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse edited by Sven Birkerts. Graywolf Press, 256 pp., $16.00. Extra-Sensory

Chicago Sunday Tribune

The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus. New Republic/Basic Books. 293 pages, $25.00.

Christianity and Crisis

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Harper Collins paperback, pp., $10.95; and Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology by Howard Zinn. Harper Collins, 341 pp. Community in America: The Challenge of ‘Habits of the Heart.’ Edited by Charles H. Reynolds and Ralph V. Norman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 333 pages, $12.95; Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. By Barba

Commonwealth

One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other by Alan Wolfe, Viking, 359 pp., $24.95. Up from Progressivism

Dissent

Socialist Register 2004 Leo Panitch and Colin Leys editors and After the Empire by Emmanuel Todd Is There an American Empire? A Response to Michael Walzer The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy. Knopf, 277 pp., $22.00. 9/11: An Exchange with Michael Walzer. Dissent Magazine Website, September 2001. (No longer available.) If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? By G. A. Cohen. Harvard University Press, 233 pages, $35.00 and Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty. Penguin Books, 288 pages, $13.95. Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 328 pp., $26.00 and Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Vict Don’ t Think, Smile: Notes on a Decade of Denial by Ellen Willis. Beacon Press, 192 pp., $24.00. The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby. Basic Books, [ ] pp., $[ ]. Economic Justice by Stephen Nathanson, Prentice-Hall, 144 pages. A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 409 pp. A Partisan Century: Political Writings From Partisan Review, edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 1996. 409 pp. $49.00, cloth; $19.50, paper Enlightenment’s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age. By John Gray. Routledge, 1996. 203 pp., $29.95. Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. Ivan R. Dee, 463 PP., $35 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). The Revolt of the Elites and the-Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch. Norton, 276 pp., $22.00. A Farewell to Virtue: the Literature of Cultural Complaint The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling by Diana Trilling. Harcourt Brace & Co., 442 pp., $24.95.;A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald by Michael Wrezsin. Basic Bernard Shaw: A Biography by Michael Holroyd. Random House.; Three volumes, each $24.95. ($15.95 paper) Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty-First Century by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. South End Press, 153 pp., $10.00.; The Political Economy of Participatory Economicsby Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. Princeton Univer Socialist Register 1990: The Retreat of the Intellectuals edited by Ralph Miliband and Leo Panitch. Merlin Press, $16.00 (paper). Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. By Charles Taylor. Harvard University Press, 601 pp, $37.50. Christian Socialism: An Informal History. By John Cort. New York: Orbis Books, 1988. 402 pp. $12.95.

Essays

Out of the Fold: A Letter to Daniel Berrigan Introduction to The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (New York Review Books). The Fifties by David Halberstam. Villard Books, 800 pp., $27.50.

Grand Street

William Buckley: Patron Saint of the Conservatives by John Judis What Are Intellectuals Good For?

Harvard Magazine

Living with Nuclear Weapons. By the Harvard Nuclear Study Group. (Harvard University Press, $12.95; Bantam, $3.95). The Fate of the Earth. By Jonathan Schell. Alfred A. Knopf, $11.95. A Compassionate Peace: A Future for the Middle East. By Everett Mendelsohn and the Middle East Working Party of the American Friends Service Committee. Hill & Wang, $12.95 (paper. $6.95). Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. By Howard Gardner. Basic Books, $23.50.

Harvard Review

The Inviolable Seamus A Prophet, Honored The Worst Policy A Tired Hero, At Rest: A Memoir of Irving Howe Thoughts on a Quincentennial Lately Passed Crowds and Culture Nuclear War and Health Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. By Penny Lernoux. Doubleday, $12.95.

In Character

Honesty: A Syllabus Self-Reliance: A Syllabus Justice: A Syllabus

In These Times

Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy by Robert H. Wiebe. University of Chicago Press, 321 PP. Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-Based Deterrence and Defense by Gene Sharp. Baflinger, $14.95. Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-Based Deterrence and Defense by Gene Sharp. Ballinger, $14.95. Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer. Basic Books, 345 pp., $19.95. Toward an Ecological Society. By Murray Bookchin. Black Rose Books, 313 pp., $8.95. Ecotopia Emerging. By Ernest Callenbach. Bantam, $3.50

LA Weekly

The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation by John L. Casti. Addison-Wesley, 181 pp., $23. Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner. Yale University Press, 206 pp., $24.95. Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner. Yale University Press, 206 pp., $24.95. Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses edited by Paul Berman. Dell, 338 pp., $8.00 (paper). Selected Writings: 1950-1990 by Irving Howe. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays by E.G. Johnson. University of Georgia Press, 347 pages, $34.95; Political Crumbs by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Translated by Martin Chalmers. Verso , 160 pages, $17.95. Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays. By R.W. Johnson. University of California Press. 347 pages, $34.95 hardcover.; Political Crumbs. By Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Translated by Martin Chalmbers. Verso. 160 pages, $17.95 hardcover. The Politics of Rich and Poor; Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. By Kevin Phillips. Random House, 262 pages: $19.95 hardcover. A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. By Lawrence Weschler. Pantheon Books, 293 pages, $22.95 hardcover. Fault Lines

Los Angeles Times Book Review

They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne, Jr. Simon & Schuster, Cloth, 352 pp., $24.00. The Good Society by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton. Alfred A. Knopf: $25.00, cloth; 368 pp; 0-679-40098-2

N+1

Farewell, Hitch

NBCC

Acceptance Speech - National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (March 1992).

New Haven Review of Books

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman

Philadelphia Inquirer

Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace by Noam Chomsky. South End Press, 298 pages, $10.00 (paper).

Root & Branch

Decade of Decision: The Crisis of the American System. By Michael Harrington. Simon and Schuster, $11.95.

The Activist Review

Watergate and Contragate

The American Prospect

How Democratic Is the American Constitution? by Robert Dahl , Yale University Press, 198 pages, $19.95. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 256 pp., $25.00. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig, Random House, 352 pp., $30 and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanatha The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It by Charles Lindblom. Yale Univ. Press, 296 pp., $26.00. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice by Alan Wolfe, W. W. Norton, 224 pp., $24.95. The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age by Andrei Cherny. Basic Books, 268 pp, $24. The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty by David G. Myers. Yale Univ. Press, 414 pages, $29.95 and The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert G. Lane. Yale Univ. Press, 465 pages, $35.00 The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish, Harvard University Press, 328 pages, $24.95.

The Boston Review

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier. Farrar Straus Giroux, 572 pages, $35.00.

The Nation

The Nation What Is to Be Done? (Review essay) The American Way of Strategy by Michael Lind and Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin Remembering Ellen Willis The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 488 pages, $27.50. Arguing about War by Michael Walzer. Yale University Press, 208 pp., $25. Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham, The Penguin Press, 178 pp, $19.95; What We’ve Lost by Graydon Carter, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 340 pp, $25; Things Worth Fighting For What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank. Metropolitan Books, 306 pages, $24. Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966 by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Edited by Walter Siti, translated by Marina Harss. Other Press, 232 pages, $24. Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman. Norton, 214 pages, $21.00. The Thirty Years’ Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965—1994by Andrew Kopkind. Verso, $29.95.; The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys and Encounters, 1987—1994 by Alexander Cockburn. Verso, $24.95. The First Anthology: 30 Years of the New York Review of Books, 1963—1993 Edited by Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein, and Rea S. Hederman. A New York Review Book, 345 pp., $27.50. There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech ,.. And It’s a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish. Oxford University Press, 332 pp., $25.00. Buried Alive: Essays on Our Endangered Republic. By Walter Karp. Edited by Lewis Lapham and Ellen Rosenbush. Franklin Square Press. 279 pages, $21.95; $14.95 paper.

Village Voice

The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family. By William St Clair. Norton, $32.50. The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby. Harper & Row, $17.95. Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas. Harvard University Press, $17.95. Socialism and America by Irving Howe, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $17.95. The Trouble with Roe v. Wade Bourne in Flames: Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne. By Bruce Clayton. Louisiana State University Press, $25. History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays. By Randolph Bourne. Edited by Van Wyck Brooks. Biblio, $12. The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Modern Liberalism. By John P. Diggins. Basic, $23.95. When the Bubble Bursts Abortion Is Not Murder The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine. By Andrew Cockburn. Random House, $16.95. The Politics at God’s Funeral: The Spiritual Crisis of Western Civilization By Michael Harrington. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $16.95. The Reenchantment of the World. By Morris Berman. Cornell University Press. $34.50, $8.95 paper. Radical Priorities. By Noam Chomsky. Edited by Carlos Otero. Black Rose. $19.50, $9.95 paper. Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There. By Noam Chomsky. Pantheon. $20.50, $8.95 paper. Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There by Noam Chomsky. Pantheon, $20.50, $8.95 paper. Ectopia Emerging. By Ernest Callenbach. Banyan Tree Books. $7.95, paper. Religion: If there is No God…By Leszek Kolakowski. Oxford, $19.95. After Virtue: A study in Moral Theory. By Alasdair MacIntyre. Notre Dame, $15.95, $7.95 paper. Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980. By Richard Rorty. Minneso Socialism in Theory and Practice. Volume I: Marxism and Socialist Theory. Volume II: Socialism Today and Tomorrow. By Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. South End Press, $7 each, paper. American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony. By Samuel P. Huntington. Harvard University Press, $15. Duties Beyond the Borders: On the Limit, and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics. By Stanley Hoffmann. Syracuse University Press, $18. Beyond Adversary Democracy. By Jane J. Mansbridge. Basic Books. $20. The Wounded Generation: America After Vietnam. Edited by A.D. Horns. A ‘Washington Post’ Book/Prentice-Hall, $12.95, $5.95 paper. The Political Economy of Human Rights. Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and The Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology. By Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. South End Press. $

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