This is a list of my writings sorted by publication.
 

Agni


Message from Room 101
Published in Agni on 01 April, 2003
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest, W. W. Norton, 317 pages, $27.95.
Published in Agni on 07 October, 2001
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WISTFUL THINKING ABOUT THE POLITICAL WEEKLIES
Published in Agni on 01 March, 1995
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THE SEALED ENVELOPE
Published in Agni on 01 April, 1994
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said, Knopf, 380 pages, $25.00.
Published in Agni on 07 October, 1993
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch.
Published in Agni on 01 October, 1991
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The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century and Interpretation to Social Criticism By Michael Walzer.
Published in Agni on 01 December, 1989
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The Closing of the American Mind. By Alan Bloom. Simon & Shuster.
Published in Agni on 01 September, 1988
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C. S. Lewis: Beloved Tormentor
Published in Agni on 07 October, 1987
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Bidoun


Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran by Danny Postel
Published in Bidoun on 01 April, 2007
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Boston Book Review


Pasolini Requiem. By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon, 785 pages, $35.00.
Published in Boston Book Review on 01 December, 1993
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Boston Globe


The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler
Published in Boston Globe on 22 April, 2007
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The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Contemplative Science by Alan Wallace
Published in Boston Globe on 25 February, 2007
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Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin and God's Universe by Owen Gingerich
Published in Boston Globe on 23 July, 2006
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Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics by Paul Ormerod and by Thomas Schelling
Published in Boston Globe on 23 April, 2006
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
Published in Boston Globe on 23 April, 2006
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 May, 2005
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins and From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 April, 2005
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In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed. From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White. Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer.
Published in Boston Globe on 27 March, 2005
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Love’s Confusionsby C.D.C. Reeve. Harvard University Press, 224 pages, $24.95, and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Livesby Simon Goldhill, University of Chicago Press, 335 pages, $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 06 February, 2005
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The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press, 580 pages, $24.95. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz. Wesleyan University Press, 267 pages, $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 19 December, 2004
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Why Read? by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury Press, 160 pages, $21.95 and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Lifeby Stanley Cavell.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 October, 2004
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In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $28.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 August, 2004
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Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Oxford University Press and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor. Beacon Press, 353
Published in Boston Globe on 01 August, 2004
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Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky, Knopf, 429 pp., $30.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 July, 2004
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor.
Published in Boston Globe on 06 June, 2004
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, 389 pages, $25 and Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 278
Published in Boston Globe on 25 April, 2004
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning, North Point Press; Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, Norton; and The Coming Generational Storm
Published in Boston Globe on 04 April, 2004
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. Knopf, 432 pages, $30, and Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by
Published in Boston Globe on 28 March, 2004
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Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, 357 pp, $24.95; Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou. MIT Press, 284 pp., $24.95; and Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies,
Published in Boston Globe on 01 February, 2004
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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur Danto, Open Court, 167 pp., $19.95 and Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue, Yale University Press, 209 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 November, 2003
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 12 October, 2003
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The Baffler: A Literary and Cultural Review PO Box 378293, Chicago IL 60637 and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahy. Norton, 404 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 21 September, 2003
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 August, 2003
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Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett.
Published in Boston Globe on 13 July, 2003
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Emerson by Lawrence Buell
Published in Boston Globe on 01 June, 2003
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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 02 March, 2003
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Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 05 January, 2003
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One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 450 pages, $26.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 17 November, 2002
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The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 351 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 29 September, 2002
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Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 September, 2002
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The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 806 pages, $40.
Published in Boston Globe on 11 August, 2002
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz. Norton, 282 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 28 July, 2002
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama, The Free Press, 354 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 June, 2002
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Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. Norton, 1152 pages, $39.95
Published in Boston Globe on 02 May, 2002
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A Jacques Barzun Reader, edited by Michael Murray, HarperCollins, 615 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 31 March, 2002
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John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky. Viking, 580 pp., $34.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 February, 2002
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron. HarperCollins, 286 pages, $26.
Published in Boston Globe on 20 February, 2002
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Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidenow. Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 340 pages, $24.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 13 January, 2002
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The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00
Published in Boston Globe on 18 November, 2001
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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00
Published in Boston Globe on 01 June, 2001
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 April, 2001
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All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24.
Published in Boston Globe on 11 February, 2001
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa. Rowman and Littlefield, 549 pages, $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 14 January, 2001
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Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 31 December, 2000
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 October, 2000
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Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter. Yale University Press, 946 pages, $35 and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron. Viking, 986 pages, $40.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 October, 2000
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 30 July, 2000
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John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35.
Published in Boston Globe on 16 July, 2000
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
Published in Boston Globe on 11 June, 2000
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