106 stories by "Harvey Blume"
Presented in no particular order, these ten books published over the last year got my not uniformly positive attention.
People like [Yigal Amir] emerge in many social movements, people who regard protest within the bounds of democratic process as insufficient.
Whatever its flaws, Sicario goes a long way to informing us of what's happening just south of the border " not driven by illegal immigration, but by American drug lust.
I wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.
In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.
"When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres."
The writing in this novel depends on winks and nods. You're invited to be in on a big joke, assuming it is one.
Hollywood Express is closing at the end of July. Movies will be distributed by Cloud. Have you ever tried talking to the Cloud?
Author Vivian Gornick's discontent is foundational, fertile, unquenchable, except by writing, and quite often funny.
My conclusion is that Mad Men is abstract, like some of the art in the series.
How you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn't.
At every turn I sense potential in The Americans, always untapped, for a smart sitcom.
It is unlikely that those who turned automatic fire on the staff of Charlie Hebdon ever read Michel Houellebecq.
Assaf Gavron's sweeping, smart, often funny new novel spins a satiric update on Exodus.
"Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare."
How African pygmies came to St. Louis has everything to do with Barnum, with freak shows, with unreconstructed racism.
On this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.
It took me until I was nearly done with The Betrayers to step back and realize that one reason I found it so absorbing is that alienation plays no part.
Religion occupies pride of place in this volume. As Lawrence Wright says at the outset: "The struggle for peace at Camp David is a testament to the enduring force of religion in modern life"
The trippiness, the nudge regarding unused powers, regarding vision, regarding the potential of our minds, are the best parts of Lucy.
It's a vampire novel minus actual vampires. Evil bloodsucking editors and agents fill in very well as monsters on the loose.
There's room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's erudition, coupled to her literary skill, makes Plato at the Googleplex inviting and readable without sacrificing complexity.
"Cambridge" is being marketed as a novel, which means the author has included embellishments
What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?
