Reviews

BERLIN AND THE ANGEL OF HISTORY

By Stan Persky | April 16, 2002

Stan Persky reviews David Clay Large’s recent English-language history of Berlin

Cuban Cuisine, or Where—and Why—Soviet-Style Communism Still Doesn’t Work

By Brian Fawcett | April 4, 2002

Brian Fawcett files the site’s first travel review with some unkind words about Cuba’s cuisine

Proofreading Some Recent War Novels

By Brian Fawcett | April 2, 2002

Brian Fawcett tests the proof-reading of Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers against Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms and is surprised by what he finds

REPUBLIC OF LETTERS

By Stan Persky | April 2, 2002

Stan Persky reviews The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki

TROUBLE IN MIND

By Stan Persky | March 26, 2002

Stan Persky reviews A Beautiful Mind: the book and the movie.

FINDING, DREAMING, MAKING

By Stan Persky | February 10, 2002

Stan Persky reviews Paul Strathern’s book on Dmitri Mendeleyev, who created the Periodic Table

South Asian Madness

By Raywat Deonandan | February 1, 2002

Ray Deonandan appraises Eric Margolis’ War At The Top Of The World: The Struggle For Afghanistan, Kashmir

THE CENSOR’S PASSION

By Stan Persky | January 23, 2002

From Thailand, Persky offers a view of J.M. Coetzee’s 1996 Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Tomatoes In Toronto

By Gordon Lockheed | September 18, 2001

Graz’s first letter, dated September 10, 2001

Regarding Henry

By Daniel Gawthrop | August 23, 2001

Daniel Gawthrop reviews Christopher Hitchen’s recent indictment of Henry Kissinger