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Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Tom Peyser |
Looking Back at Looking Backward Edward Bellamy's famous utopian novel, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, is set in today's America. Are we living his crazy dream?   |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Glenn Garvin |
Banana Republics, With Nuts Book Review: Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot, by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa. The book explores social thought in Latin America. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Steve Kurtz |
It's the Story, Stupid Book Review: Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Michael Young |
Grand Inquisitor Book Review: Reflections on a Ravaged Century, by Robert Conquest. Conquest now launches an assault against the tyranny of abstract Ideas, those vindicating the forcible, unnatural shaping of human actions... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Brian Doherty |
Cybersilly Book Review: Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech, by Paulina Borsook |
Salon.com
August 14, 2000
Charles Taylor |
"The Birds" Tote up all its flaws and you still reach the same conclusion: Hitchcock's ornithological thriller is simply terrifying. |
Salon.com
August 14, 2000
Rick Moody & Mary Gaitskill |
Sex, capitalism and antidepressants Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Andrew O'Hehir |
Stephen King A master of plot mechanics, he revived the moribund genre of horror literature and became the richest writer in history. We could do worse. |
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