This is a list of my reviews, alphabetized by the title of the reviewed work.

9/11: An Exchange with Michael Walzer. Dissent Magazine Website, September 2001. (No longer available.)
Published in Dissent on 25 September, 2001
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A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from The Readers’ Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs.Edited with an Introduction by Arthur Krystal. Foreword by Jacques Barzun.
Published in Washington Post on 07 October, 2001
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A Compassionate Peace: A Future for the Middle East. By Everett Mendelsohn and the Middle East Working Party of the American Friends Service Committee. Hill & Wang, $12.95 (paper. $6.95).
Published in Harvard Magazine on 15 March, 1982
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A Farewell to Virtue: the Literature of Cultural Complaint
Published in Dissent on 29 January, 1995
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A Fool For Love: D.H. Lawrence at 100
Published in Boston Phoenix on 13 May, 1986
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A Guide to Critical Legal Studies. By Mark Kelman. Harvard University Press, $30.
Published in Zeta on 01 May, 1988
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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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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. By Lawrence Weschler. Pantheon Books, 293 pages, $22.95 hardcover.
Published in LA Weekly on 16 May, 1990
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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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A Partisan Century: Political Writings From Partisan Review, edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 1996. 409 pp. $49.00, cloth; $19.50, paper
Published in Dissent on 01 April, 1997
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A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 409 pp.
Published in Dissent on 01 April, 1997
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A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Harper Collins paperback, pp., $10.95; and Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology by Howard Zinn. Harper Collins, 341 pp.
Published in Christianity and Crisis on 13 May, 1991
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A Preface to Economic Democracy. By Robert A. Dahl. University of California Press, $14.95. A Citizen Legislature. By Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. Banyan Tree Books/ Clear Glass, $6 paper.
Published in Village Voice Literary Supplement on 01 September, 1985
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A Prophet, Honored
Published in Harvard Review on 01 May, 1995
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A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 September, 1995
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A Tired Hero, At Rest: A Memoir of Irving Howe
Published in Harvard Review on 07 October, 1993
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A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints edited by Paul Elie, with an introduction by Robert Coles. Harcourt Brace, 325 pp., $22.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 December, 1994
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Abortion Is Not Murder
Published in Village Voice on 16 October, 1984
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Acceptance Speech - National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (March 1992).
Published in NBCC on 18 March, 1992
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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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Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. Ivan R. Dee, 463 PP., $35 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).
Published in Dissent on 01 September, 1995
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. By Marshall Berman. Simon & Shuster, 383 pages, $6.95).
Published in Boston Phoenix on 21 June, 1983
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air by Marshall Berman. Simon & Schuster, 383 pages, $6.95.
Published in Boston Phoenix on 21 June, 1983
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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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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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American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony. By Samuel P. Huntington. Harvard University Press, $15.
Published in Village Voice on 11 November, 1981
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An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 27 September, 1998
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Antipolitics: An Essay By George Konrad. Translated by Richard E. Allen. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 243 pp. $12.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 17 June, 1984
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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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Arguing about War by Michael Walzer. Yale University Press, 208 pp., $25.
Published in The Nation on 13 December, 2004
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Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 January, 2000
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Bernard Shaw: A Biography by Michael Holroyd. Random House.; Three volumes, each $24.95. ($15.95 paper)
Published in Dissent on 01 September, 1992
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Beyond Adversary Democracy. By Jane J. Mansbridge. Basic Books. $20.
Published in Village Voice on 22 April, 1981
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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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Bourne in Flames: Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne. By Bruce Clayton. Louisiana State University Press, $25. History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays. By Randolph Bourne. Edited by Van Wyck Brooks. Biblio, $12.
Published in Village Voice on 01 February, 1985
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Buried Alive: Essays on Our Endangered Republic. By Walter Karp. Edited by Lewis Lapham and Ellen Rosenbush. Franklin Square Press. 279 pages, $21.95; $14.95 paper.
Published in The Nation on 23 August, 1993
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 09 May, 1999
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C. S. Lewis: Beloved Tormentor
Published in Agni on 07 October, 1987
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Charisma: The Gift of Grace and How It Has Been Taken from Us by Philip Rieff.
Published in Boston Review on 23 July, 2007
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames by Michael Ignatieff, Grove Press, 179 pp., $22.00.
Published in Washington Post on 25 January, 2004
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Children of Darkness and Light by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 20 July, 1997
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Christian Socialism: An Informal History. By John Cort. New York: Orbis Books, 1988. 402 pp. $12.95.
Published in Dissent on 01 November, 1989
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Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40
Published in Boston Globe on 13 December, 1998
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Free Press, 545 pages, $35.00.
Published in on 05 August, 2001
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Community in America: The Challenge of ‘Habits of the Heart.’ Edited by Charles H. Reynolds and Ralph V. Norman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 333 pages, $12.95; Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. By B
Published in Christianity and Crisis on 23 October, 1989
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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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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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Crowds and Culture
Published in Harvard Review on 01 October, 1992
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America. By Penny Lernoux. Doubleday, $12.95.
Published in Harvard Review on 01 January, 1981
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 328 pp., $26.00 and Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Vict
Published in Dissent on 07 October, 1999
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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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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman
Published in New Haven Review of Books on 01 July, 2007
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Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses edited by Paul Berman. Dell, 338 pp., $8.00 (paper).
Published in LA Weekly on 27 March, 1993
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Decade of Decision: The Crisis of the American System. By Michael Harrington. Simon and Schuster, $11.95.
Published in Root & Branch on 01 January, 1981
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Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 June, 1996
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Demonstration Election: U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador. By Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead. South End Press, $8 paper.
Published in Village Voice Literary Supplement on 01 June, 1984
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Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 06 September, 1994
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Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein Knopf $25.00.; Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russell Jacoby. Doubleday $22.95.
Published in on 15 December, 1994
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Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95
Published in Boston Globe on 31 May, 1994
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Don’ t Think, Smile: Notes on a Decade of Denial by Ellen Willis. Beacon Press, 192 pp., $24.00.
Published in Dissent on 01 October, 1999
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