David Mehegan
If this is a fable, is there a moral?
Read MoreThe plot of The Red Balcony ticks along briskly. Jonathan Wilson is a gifted narrator and scene-maker.
Read MoreRefugee: A Memoir was not written to entertain but to outrage and activate.
Read MoreOh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.
Read MoreIt is not surprising that Wendy Warren strains to find words to “comprehend the rank tragedy that resulted from enslavement.”
Read MoreAlthough Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.
Read MoreThese three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.
Read MoreThe Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
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Book Review: Two Powerful Books from Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa — A Liberal Citizen of the World
Engagingly written by a limpid stylist, The Call of the Tribe marshals a corps of sparkling intellectuals who have in common first-hand experience of dictatorship, a commitment to individual freedom, a belief in reasonably regulated free-market economies, and a rejection of the political zealotry of religion or the doctrinaire left and right.
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