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Book Review
Richard Holbrooke biography is fraught, but enlightening
George Packer's portrait of the legendary diplomat and ambassador is fueled by extensive research as well as a "friend's" personal knowledge, putting it on the cutting edge of the new modern biography.
Book Review
Flannery O'Connor, Robert Giroux's 'partnership' succeeds
Book Review: Jesuit Fr. Patrick Samway takes us to a lost world — New York City publishing in the 1950s and '60s — and shows us the beginning of a new world, the early years of the Iowa Writers Workshop, the mothership for the hundreds of creative writing graduate programs.
Book Review
'Lions' Den' details Daniel Berrigan's life
Book Review: A "biography and memoir" does double duty for any single author, though, overall, there is more biography in Jim Forest's new book than memoir. Indeed, when finished I knew more about Jesuit Fr. Dan Berrigan than I did about the author.
Book Review
Setting the Patty Hearst record straight
Book Review: A recent book spate about '70s radicals is doubtless a soothing counterpoint to our own continuing conflicts. Now we have a new account of the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping.
