Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat, by Mohamed Heikal by Daniel Pipes Mohamed Heikal, the renowned Egyptian journalist, writes on the first page of Autumn of Fury that he was "very fond…
Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat, by Mohamed Heikal by Daniel Pipes Mohamed Heikal, the renowned Egyptian journalist, writes on the first page of Autumn of Fury that he was "very fond…
Cohen at the Bat by Tilden G. Edelstein Andy Cohen and his brother Syd together spent a total of seventy years in professional baseball, but were major leaguers…
Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics, by Lester C. Thurow by Commentary Bk Lester C. Thurow first became visible in 1972 as chief economic adviser to George McGovern. Since the publication of his…
It’s Only Culture by Joseph Epstein For all that so many people extol the period in American life known with chronological inexactitude as the 60's, looking…
Overdrive, by William F. Buckley Jr. by Norman Podhoretz The first thing to say about Overdrive is that it is a dazzling book. The second thing to say is…
The Famine the Times Couldn’t Find by Marco Carynnyk My editor was dubious. I had been explaining that fifty years ago, in the spring and summer of 1933, Ukraine,…
The Last Great Yiddish Poet? by Ruth R. Wisse "A country or a state should endure longer than an individual." Whomever Czeslaw Milosz may have had in mind in…
The New Soviet Apologists by Arch Puddington Among the many consequences of the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 has been the temporary suspension of a…
The Sacred Executioner, by Hyam Maccoby by Robert Alter This is a venturesome, provocative book that seeks first to uncover the archaic origins of certain central expressions of biblical…
The War Over the Family, by Brigitte Berger and Peter L. Berger by Rita Kramer Respecters and defenders of the much-maligned traditional family should take pleasure in this book. For it is the aim of…
Woody Allen on the American Character by Richard Grenier Woody Allen had dreamed of higher things. Having been encouraged by more adulation from the country's cultural elite than any…
