The Culture of the Cold War (1991)
By Stephen J. Whitfield As with Thomas Hill Schaub’s study of the era’s fiction, the “Cold War” in the title of Whitfield’s book is somewhat of a misnomer in that he has limited his focus to the period...
View ArticleThe Agony of the American Left
By Christopher Lasch Spanning the years from the Populist movement of the 1890s to the radical politics of the 1960s, Lasch’s study offers a useful analysis of many of the social, economic, and...
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The Rise and Fall of the American Left (1992)
By John Patrick Diggins For Diggins, the first problem facing any historian of the American Left is one of basic terminology. “The characteristics most often used to define the Left,” he writes, “the...
View ArticleThe Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
By Jeffrey C. Alexander As noted in its sub-title, Alexander’s study argues for a “cultural sociology” — a discipline distinct from existing sociologies of culture. “To speak of the sociology of...
View ArticleLittle Children
I did something last night that I hadn’t been able to do for nearly three months: I stretched out on the sofa and read for two hours. After listening to Terry Gross’s interview with Tom Perrotta, I...
View ArticleDreamer
I’m almost finished Dreamer, Charles Johnson’s novel about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s struggles in Chicago in 1966, and it’s amazing — the finest novel I’ve read in months. (Dreamer wants to become part...
View ArticleThe Moviegoer (1962)
By Walker Percy “What’s the Matter?” “Ooooh,” Kate groans, Kate herself now. “I’m so afraid.” “I know.” “What am I going to do?” “You mean right now?” “Yes.” “We’ll go to my car. Then we’ll drive down...
View ArticleA Long Way Down (2005)
By Nick Hornby So what is the prevailing opinion of Michiko Kakutani? After finishing Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down, I dug up her review and was suprised to find a piece that is, at best, a witless and...
View ArticleWhat Are You Reading?
Following Girish’s lead . . . Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield – I picked up a copy of Love is a Mix Tape after reading and really enjoying Fluxblog’s three-part interview with Sheffield. His book...
View ArticleRon Austin’s In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts
This review was originally published at Sojourners. - – - Even at a length of just under 100 pages, Ron Austin’s In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts is four or five books in one, a quality...
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