2008 - Reviews (Harper's Magazine)

2008—Review

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83 - 84	January 2008 New Books/Review by John Leonard See also: Manguel, Alberto; Pérez-Reverte, Arturo; Lewis, David Levering; Diary of a bad year (Book); God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215 (Book); Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: a biography (Book); Coetzee, J.M.; The painter of battles (Book) PDF IMAGES
85 - 89	January 2008 Review Faith in reason: Secular fantasies of a godless age by John Gray See also: A secular age (Book); Taylor, Charles; Holoch, George; Lilla, Mark; Roy, Olivier; Secularism; Secularism confronts Islam (Book); The stillborn god: religion, politics, and the modern West (Book) PDF IMAGES
89 - 94	January 2008 Review Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno by William H. Gass See also: Lowry, Malcolm; Hofmann, Michael; The voyage that never ends: fictions, poems, fragments, letters (Book) PDF IMAGES
81 - 82	February 2008 New Books/Review by John Leonard See also: Schlink, Bernhard; Fanon (Book); Five years of my life: an innocent man in Guantanamo (Book); Homecoming (Book); Wideman, John Edgar; Kurnaz, Murat; Night train to Lisbon (Book); Mercier, Pascal; Banks, Russell; The reserve (Book) PDF IMAGES
83 - 89	February 2008 Review Too true, the art of the aphorism by Arthur Krystal See also: Aphorisms and apothegms; Kafka, Franz; Shapiro, Fred R.; Geary's guide to the worlds great aphorists (Book); Geary, James; Gross, John J.; Hofmann, Michael; The Oxford book of aphorisms (Book); The world in a phrase: a brief history of the aphorism (Book); The Yale book of quotations (Book); The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Book) PDF IMAGES
89 - 94	February 2008 Review This way, not that: Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases by Robert Boyers See also: Beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories (Book); Gordimer, Nadine; Novelists, South African; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
83 - 84	March 2008 New Books/Review by John Leonard See also: Kazin, Alfred; Alfred Kazin: a biography (Book); Biography; Leslie, Esther; Stape, J.H. (John Henry); Conrad, Joseph; Pictorial works; Cook, Richard M.; The several lives of Joseph Conrad (Book); Benjamin, Walter; Walter Benjamin (Book) PDF IMAGES
85 - 88	March 2008 Review The vital center did not hold: Arthur Schlesinger's diaries reveal a blindness to the changing political landscape by John Lukacs See also: Schlesinger, Andrew; Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier); Diaries; Historians; Journals: 1952-2000 (Book); Schlesinger, Stephen PDF IMAGES
88 - 94	March 2008 Review Fear of fallowing: The specter of a no-growth world by Steven Stoll See also: Friedman, Benjamin M.; McKibben, Bill; Lindsey, Brink; Deep economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future (Book); Economic development; The age of abundance: how prosperity transformed America's politics and culture (Book); The moral consequences of economic growth (Book) PDF IMAGES
89 - 90	April 2008 New Books/Review by John Leonard See also: Weiss, Andrea; Hari, Daoud; Havanas in Camelot: personal essays (Book); In the shadow of the magic mountain: the Erika and Klaus Mann story (Book); Maps and legends: essays on reading and writing along the borderlands (Book); Chabon, Michael; The translator: a tribesman's memoir of Darfur (Book); Styron, William PDF IMAGES
91 - 96	April 2008 Review Dirty laundry: The strange history of hygiene by Joanna Bourke See also: Clean: a history of personal hygiene and purity (Book); Hygiene; Ashenburg, Katherine; The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history (Book); Smith, Virginia (Virginia Sarah) PDF IMAGES
96 - 102	April 2008 Review The other side of silence: W.G. Sebald's melancholy art by Evelyn Toynton See also: Authors, German; Interviews; Schwartz, Lynne Sharon; Pictorial works; The emergence of memory: conversations with W.G. Sebald (Book); Sebald, Winfried Georg PDF IMAGES
79 - 80	May 2008 New Books/Review by John Leonard See also: Kertész, Imre; Winterson, Jeanette; Appignanesi, Lisa; Mad, bad, and sad: women and the mind doctors (Book); Demetz, Peter; Prague in danger: the years of German occupation, 1939-45—memories and history, terror and resistance, theater and jazz, film and poetry, politics and war (Book); The pathseeker (Book); The stone gods (Book) PDF IMAGES
81 - 86	May 2008 Review The fog of Abu Ghraib: Errol Morris and the “bad apples” by W.J.T. (W.J. Thomas) Mitchell See also: Career as director—Reviews; Morris, Errol PDF IMAGES
87 - 94	May 2008 Review Irrational man: Gershom Scholem's decisive years by Paul Reitter See also: Skinner, Anthony David; Diaries; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard; Israel; Jewish scholars; Lamentations of youth: the diaries of Gershom Scholem, 1913-1919 (Book); Pictorial works PDF IMAGES