Criticism
… finds that Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds embodies the Nazi-killing fantasies that many Jewish young men … it seems to me like an updated version of stalagim . The comments from horror director Eli Roth, who acts in the … visions of Islam. The Los Angeles Times launched a new website , which has some visual similarities to NYTimes.com …
Poetry
… down the temple where he stood blind and said: “Let me die with the Philistines!” Did he embrace the pillars as in …
Criticism
… Novelist To the End of the Land, by David Grossman. Knopf, $26.95 In thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including … language and angry curses, hectors Ilan and his fellow soldiers for not rescuing him. Grossman was a longtime radio … with small monuments—benches, plaques, trees, lookout points—dedicated to fallen soldiers. One such encounter …
Criticism
… by George Packer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, October 2005. $26 Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the … maintain security in a steadily deteriorating Iraq. Packer points out that studies made prior to the war by a who’s who of foreign policy …
Criticism
… of belief not only manifests in the singular psyche but also in the great hulking veers and crashes of history … of self-alienation and spiritual torment that hitherto accompanied ideas like theirs. The result of Ryrie’s effort is … been its own gravedigger.” The (inconsistent) leniency of medieval religious institutions toward philosophical criticism …
Criticism
… find a home in Caribbean writers’ work” because “magically complete retrieval of the mother-of-history” that such a … The African-American woman writer’s “mother of history” becomes, in the hands of Caribbean men, a “mother of … Caribbean women writers, confronted with this more complicated cultural heritage of representations of …