A while back I laid into David Brooks’ op-ed in the Times on Al Gore’s “Assault on Reason.” I used the word “review” earlier, but with a certain hesitation because after going through it myself I get the sense that every point Brooks addresses in his review can be found in the first six pages [...]
Just got through Bob Woodward’s latest, State of Denial, part three of what looks to be ultimately a four-part series on Bush and the post-9/11 war program. The book covers the period up to about July of this year. So if you read it soon, and then pick up the morning paper, you won’t have [...]
I just finished John le Carre’s latest, The Mission Song. Let’s say, three stars, shall we? The tale of an African/British man gifted at interpeting. He’s expert at a wide range of central African dialects and enlisted by the British spy service. Even though a British subject, and pretty well mainstream, he still holds a [...]
Over at the Cormac McCarthy Society, the good old boys are hashing over the use of the numbers 1:17 in McCarthy’s last two books. In “The Road,” it’s when the clocks stop. In “No Country For Old Men,” it shows up a few times, as the time on the monstrous killer’s dashboard clock, and as [...]
Post-apocalyptic fiction in its postwar versions has at least two common threads. One is, they tend to be cautionary tales. The most common of course being the threat of nuclear annihilation. There are too many examples of that to even list. But others themes include, “it’s not nice to mess around with germs” (“28 Days [...]
I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw Janet Maslin’s review of a new book by McCarthy, “The Road,” on the front page of the Times’ Arts section this morning.
I picked up a copy of John Dean’s book, “Conservatives Without Conscience.” A lot of political books have come through my house the last few years, but this is definitely one of the scariest.
Hot off the presses for 2006, the guru of intelligent presentation has issued his fourth full-size volume.
…and the house is buzzing with excitement. Brandy, meet Max; Max, Brandy.
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