Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power, by Andrew Shonfield by Bernard D. Nossiter Andrew Shonfield has taken a long, close look at postwar capitalism in the developed West and concluded that it has…
Against Interpretation, by Susan Sontag by Alicia Ostriker The chief commodity of Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation," according to its own author and her reviewers, is a modern sensibility.
An Agenda for American Liberals by John Kenneth Galbraith These, without doubt, are the years of the liberal. Almost everyone now so describes himself. But this is also a…
At the Dawn of Civilization: A Background of Biblical History, edited by E. A. Speiser by Erich Isaac This is the first volume of a projected "all-inclusive" and "authoritative history of the Jewish people from its beginning to…
Kennedy as Statesman by George Kateb The dream of the political outsider is to know why men of state are doing what they do. So it…
Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power, by Andrew Shonfield by Bernard D. Nossiter Andrew Shonfield has taken a long, close look at postwar capitalism in the developed West and concluded that it has…
Musgrave’s Dance and Azdak’s Circle by Jack Richardson John Arden is considered by many close to the theater to be England's best contemporary playwright. Consequently, his best known…
Science and the Common Reader by Eric Larrabee Looking back, one can see now that the third week of October 1945 was a major turning point. This was…
The Apocalyptic Temper by Robert Alter The kind of relevance of cultural past to cultural present was brought home to me with particular force by R.…
The Literature of American Government by Oscar Gass Henry Michel addressed his great book, "The Idea of the State," to "... sincere minds...who search to see clearly in…
The Murder of Rabbi Adler by T. V. LoCicero According to his teachers at the University of Michigan, where he majored in political science, Richard Wishnetsky was a brilliant…
The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy: A Case Study in Collective Psychopathology by Norman Cohn Exterminatory anti-Semitism appears where Jews are imagined as a collective embodiment of evil, a conspiratorial body dedicated to the task…
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski by Neil Compton Jerzy Kosinski's brilliant and horrifying book belongs to an increasingly numerous genre of semi-autobiographical fictions by writers who were children…
Unsafe at Any Speed, by Ralph Nader; and Safety Last, by Jeffrey O’Connell and Arthur Myers by Harvey Swados Perhaps the most far-reaching consequence of the mass media, and the one of which we have yet to see the…
