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Valentine's Day
WHEN NORMAN DIED, I felt ontologically heartbroken. It was as if a category of existence itself had become defunct. I had two things to console me:...
Mailer Review, The, 09/22/08 by Lee Siegel · More from publication -
The imagination of disaster.(Saturday by Ian McEwan)(Book Review)
Saturday. By Ian McEwan. Doubleday. 289 pp. $26. Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because...
Nation, The, 04/11/05 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
The moviegoer.(The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood)(The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Rev. and Expanded)(Book Review)
THE WHOLE EQUATION: A History of Hollywood. By David Thomson. Knopf. 402 pp. $27.95. THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FILM. By David...
Nation, The, 02/14/05 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
Imitation of life.(The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov)(Book Review)
THE COMPLETE SHORT NOVELS. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Everyman's Library. 548 pp. $23. ...
Nation, The, 12/13/04 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
The anti-profiler: the verbal burlesque of A. J. Liebling.(Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer)(Book Review)
Discussed in this essay: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer, with an introduction by David Remnick. North...
Harper's Magazine, 12/01/04 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
Empire Redux?
I am writing this in New York, the Empire state, where I happen to be late for lunch with a friend at the Empire Diner on 10th Avenue--though I'm...
Newsweek, 08/07/03 by Lee Siegel (Lee Siegel is a contributing editor of Harper's, the television critic for The New Republic and a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He writing a book about New York.) · More from publication -
Consuming culture: when our critics won't turn off the TV.('Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan' and 'The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right')(Book Review)
Discussed in this essay: Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan, by Paul Krugman. W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 128 pages. $17....
Harper's Magazine, 09/01/02 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
Out of the dark wood: Dante and the subversive ego.
Discussed in this essay: Dante, by R.W.B. Lewis. Viking, 2001. 205 pages. $19.95. Inferno: A New Verse Translation, by Michael Palma....
Harper's Magazine, 05/01/02 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
The Metaphysical Club.(Review)
The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 544 pages. $27. Pragmatism is an American product with a simple heart....
Harper's Magazine, 10/01/01 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication -
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates.(Critical Essay)
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates. Henry Holt, 2001. 472 pages. $28. The Culture of Retrieval is inescapable today. There are the...
Harper's Magazine, 07/01/01 by Siegel, Lee · More from publication
