Year: 2003

John Derbyshire is an interesting fellow. Most bloggers know him as a political commentator for National Review. The literary minded know him as the author of a...

In case you can’t get enough Richard Pipes, Jay Nordlinger has a review of his recent autobiogrpahy (Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger) in the currennt issu...

I just noticed that Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of the New Republic, has a book review posted at TNR Online: Rust Proof. Peretz recommends Growing Up Fast, t...

Speaking of Russia, interesteing discussion of Russian literature at Slate. It seems that in the land of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov popular novels are no...

Fascinating profile of Richard Pipes in the Boston Globe by Sam Tanenhaus. Pipes, eminent Russian historian, has recently authored a short autobiography entitle...

There is something about the first sentence of a book. The great ones compel you to read further and stick in your mind. The bad ones you forget almost instantl...