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“The Opposite Field,” a memoir by Jesse Katz, is a moving meditation about baseball, politics, and the unease of negotiating a new kind of American place.

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]]> 2009-10-30T08:00:47+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091022_jonathan_kirsch_on_the_woman_who_named_god/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091022_jonathan_kirsch_on_the_woman_who_named_god/ bible, book, charlotte gordon, hagar, jonathan kirsch, review, the woman who named god, Book Review

Is the biblical tale of Hagar “a creation story as important as the Garden of Eden,” as Charlotte Gordon argues in her provocative new book?

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]]> 2009-10-23T08:00:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091015_michael_kazin_on_dorothea_lange_and_the_great_depression/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091015_michael_kazin_on_dorothea_lange_and_the_great_depression/ biography, book, dancing in the dark, depression, dorothea lange, linda gordon, michael kazin, morris dickstein, review, the great depression, Book Review

Two new books explore the cultural achievements of the 1930s that continue to shape the American imagination.

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]]> 2009-10-16T08:00:41+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091001_tracy_quan_on_class_anxieties/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091001_tracy_quan_on_class_anxieties/ book, class, julian fellowes, past imperfect, review, tracy quan, Book Review

Julian Fellowes’ novel “Past Imperfect” provides a compelling fictive crossroads where the myths and realities of class collide.

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]]> 2009-10-02T08:00:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090924_eve_pell_on_old_money_and_its_discontents/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090924_eve_pell_on_old_money_and_its_discontents/ book, cheerful money, eve pell, review, tad friend, wasp, Book Review

Tad Friend’s vivid memoir offers an insider’s guide to the peculiar anthropological habits of America’s now nearly extinct WASP ruling establishment.

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]]> 2009-09-25T08:21:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090917_joel_kotkin_on_californias_golden_age/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090917_joel_kotkin_on_californias_golden_age/ book, california, golden dreams, joel kotkin, kevin starr, review, Book Review

Kevin Starr’s newest volume in his magisterial series on California examines the dream of endless prosperity that was, for a time, synonymous with the American dream.

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]]> 2009-09-18T08:00:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090910_benjamin_r_barber_on_alan_wolfes_the_future_of_liberalism/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090910_benjamin_r_barber_on_alan_wolfes_the_future_of_liberalism/ alan wolfe, benjamin r. barber, book, liberalism, review, the future of liberalism, Book Review

Can liberalism be rescued from those who equate it with treason, terrorism, evil and even a mental disorder?

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]]> 2009-09-11T08:00:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090904_steve_oney_on_john_buntins_la_noir/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090904_steve_oney_on_john_buntins_la_noir/ book, crime, history, john buntin, los angeles, noir, review, steve oney, Book Review By Steve Oney

A rare combination of bravura storytelling and social history, “L.A. Noir” will delight fans of hard-boiled film and fiction even as it challenges the myths of 20th century Los Angeles.

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]]> 2009-09-04T10:09:15+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090827_eric_lax_on_elia_kazan/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090827_eric_lax_on_elia_kazan/ broadway, director, elia kazan, eric lax, film, hollywood, kazan on directing, review, theater, Book Review

Whatever one thinks of his politics, Elia Kazan was inarguably one of the 20th century’s greatest Broadway and Hollywood directors. A new book reveals the master at work.

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]]> 2009-08-28T08:00:09+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090813_chris_hedges_on_alex_s_jones_losing_the_news/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090813_chris_hedges_on_alex_s_jones_losing_the_news/ alex jones, alex s. jones, book, chris hedges, journalism, losing the news, media, newspaper, review, Book Review

Are we entering an age in which the electronic image, endowed with the ability to manufacture its own reality, is hurling us into a state of collective self-delusion? Welcome to a brave new post-literate world where we confuse how we are made to feel with knowledge.

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