Category Archives: Book Reviews

The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

Publishers Weekly says: "NPR host Sagal (Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me) offers a hilarious, harmlessly prurient look at the banality of regular people’s strange and wicked pleasures. In the wake of the late-1990s obsession with other people’s fun, notes Sagal, … Continue reading →

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THEY KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT: The Rise of the Neocons by Jacob Heilbrunn

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Luke Ford

Timothy Noah writes for the New York Times: There’s no point denying it: neocons tend to be Jewish. There are plenty of prominent exceptions — William Bennett, the former education secretary, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late United States senator, … Continue reading →

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‘A novelist weaves vivid fiction through the already colorful history of a 14th century Hebrew codex’

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Luke Ford

Emily Barton writes in the LAT: Geraldine Brooks has based her new novel, "People of the Book," on the real-life adventures of a 14th century Hebrew codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, a richly illuminated version of the narrative Jews … Continue reading →

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It’s A Fable, It Must Be Good

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Luke Ford

I got a filthy book in the mail. That’s not unusual. I get a lot of filfthy stuff in the mail. Strictly for journalistic purposes, mind you. But this one was different. To begin with, it was sent to me … Continue reading →

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‘Her Last Death’ By Susanna Sonnenberg

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

Karen Valby writes for EW: As the story goes, when Susanna Sonnenberg was 2 years old, Norman Mailer took one look at her and pronounced to her mother that ”Susy’s got a great ass. It’s going to get her into … Continue reading →

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