Steve Wasserman

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Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a principal architect of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, is a former partner of the literary agency Kneerim and Williams,...

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Steve Wasserman on the Scourge of Czarist Russia

May 21, 2010
Lesley Blanch’s “The Sabres of Paradise” tells the illuminating story of Shamyl, the Imam of Daghestan, whose 25-year fight against the Russian empire left a half-million dead, and lessons still to be learned in wars from Chechnya to Afghanistan.Lesley Blanch’s “The Sabres of Paradise” tells the illuminating story of Shamyl, whose fight against the Russian empire left a half-million dead, and lessons still to be learned in wars from Chechnya to Afghanistan.

Steve Wasserman on Fidel Castro

Apr 11, 2008
What will history say about the implacable anti-imperialist and unrepentant revolutionary who has held power in Cuba for nearly 50 years? The publication of Fidel Castro's and Ignacio Ramonet's "My Life: A Spoken Autobiography" helps us understand the man and his myth.

Truth or Consequences

Mar 4, 2008
We got snookered. Motoko Rich of The New York Times reports in her article posted March 4 that the just-published "memoir" by Margaret B. Jones, called "Love and Consequences," about Jones' "life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods," is a fabrication.

Goodbye to All That

Sep 8, 2007
Although coverage of books in major newspapers may seem to have taken a precipitous downturn in recent months, this decline has been in the works for a while, says longtime writer, literary editor and book aficionado Steve Wasserman, who opines in this CJR article about the high costs of this lamentable cultural sea change.