Category Archives: Book Reviews

‘Sometimes You Are What You Wear – An Argument For Modesty’

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Luke Ford

From ModestyBook.com: “Beauty diminishes, but a good name endures.” Everyday, people are bombarded by images from the media that promote sex, stick-thin figures as ideal, music, movies and books that idealize relationships mirroring our disposable society. World famous fashion models … Continue reading →

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9/11 Is Seen as Leading to an Attack on Women

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Luke Ford

Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times: This, sadly, is the sort of tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned book that gives feminism a bad name. With “The Terror Dream,” Susan Faludi has taken the momentous subject of 9/11 and come … Continue reading →

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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Luke Ford

This is a great new book by Jeffrey Toobin. From Publishers Weekly: "It’s not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided by political intuition. New Yorker legal … Continue reading →

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Ehud Havazelet’s First Novel – ‘Bearing The Body’

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Luke Ford

Francine Prose writes in the New York Times: His central character, Nathan Mirsky, receives a letter from his brother, eats dinner, gets drunk, smokes pot and then rapes his sympathetic, appealing girlfriend. I mention this to warn readers who might … Continue reading →

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How The Japanese Media Is Like The Parochial Jewish Media

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Luke Ford

Ian Hargreaves writes in his 2003 book Journalism: Truth or Dare: …But the workings of Japanese news media are barely recognizable to journalists from the United States or Britain… Japanese journalists, for example, are bound together in a network of … Continue reading →

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