Chinese intellectual's memoir reflects how even aesthetics are perceived as a threat by totalitarian regimes.
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Book Review: 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving can Change your Life by Cami Walker
Turning something difficult into a form of blessing has never been this easy.
Read More »Book Review: Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker
Collection of post-Soviet Russian fiction reflects life in a new Russia and the influence of Russian literary heritage.
Read More »Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski
British author uses memoir approach to ponder if "The Sixties" had lasting meaning.
Read More »Book Review: The Challenge: How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers by Jonathan Mahler
An in-depth but very readable look at a lawsuit challenging the manner in which Guantanamo detainees would be tried.
Read More »Book Review: The Interrogation by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Abstract experimentalism of reissued English translation of 2008 Nobel Prize winner's debut novel leaves it unlikely to capture broad U.S. audience.
Read More »Book Review: Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Mann Booker Prize winner uses short sketches to examine the years of "squandered idealism and hope."
Read More »Book Review: To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle
Author's immersion in and travels across Pakistan provide a broad and valuable look at the country's life and politics.
Read More »Book Review: Get Off Your “But” by Sean Stephenson
Never count yourself out.
Read More »Book Review: A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties by Robert Greenfield
Despite its potential as metaphor, this biography of one of London's hip couples of the "Swinging '60s" suffers from unsympathetic subjects.
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