Ingrid Norton on The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
December 6th, 2011
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Barry Schwartz on The Myths of Happiness, Love 2.0 and Happy Money by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Barbara Fredrickson, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
“Getting Happier: Three Books on Happiness”
March 25th, 2013
Nathan Deuel on The Reenactments by Nick Flynn
“Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn”
March 7th, 2013
Susan Olding on The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus
September 23rd, 2011
Sean Singer on Negro League Baseball by Harmony Holiday
June 30th, 2011
Courtney Cook on Last Friends by Jane Gardam
“Go Read Jane Gardam: On "Last Friends"”
April 18th, 2013
Loren Glass on The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver
February 2nd, 2012
Byron Coley on Fug You by Ed Sanders
“Golden Filth: Ed Sanders's "Fug You"”
May 15th, 2012
Jardine Libaire on How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
February 27th, 2012
Michael Kammen on I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics. Interviews with Jon Wiener by Jon Wiener
November 6th, 2012
Judith Freeman on The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
February 3rd, 2012
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