The “Steel Factory”
Ezra Vogel’s monumental biography of Deng Xiaopeng, the doctrinaire pragmatist who modernized China.
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Articles tagged book review
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman’s Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
6.16.11
Do or Die
Sugata Bose reviews Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, by Joseph Lelyveld.
4.17.11
And the War Came
At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War
2.23.11
American Ratification
The great experiment in constitution-making
12.16.10
Echo Chamber—and Amplifier
Adam Kirsch reviews The Art of the Sonnet, by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
7.1.10
An Ageless Voice on Aging
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
3.1.10
What This Country Needs
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
1.1.10
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
1.1.10
Again, A Dangerous Art
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
11.1.09
Women in a Woeful World
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
9.1.09
Cultures in Conflict
Paul M. Barrett reviews “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West,” by Christopher Caldwell ’83
7.1.09
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
5.1.09
On Judicial Interpretation
Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.