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The confounding complexities of Peter Matthiessen.
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December 2009 |
Algis Valiunas |
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Algis Valiunas reviews Donald Kagan's "Thucydides."
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November 2009 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Re-evaluating the storied career of Norman Mailer.
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September 2009 |
Algis Valiunas |
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May 2009 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Will the work of a once-lionized American writer endure?
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April 2009 |
Algis Valiunas |
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"The most original genius that America has produced" led a tragically ruinous life, but his work is strictly an adolescent taste.
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January 2009 |
Algis Valiunas |
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September 2008 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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The Oscar-winning "There Will Be Blood" has revived the reputation of one of America's most famous, and most foolish, muckrakers. His latter-day epigones are much worse.
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May 2008 |
Algis Valiunas |
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He was a man of unparalleled accomplishment, but to what end?
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January 2008 |
Algis Valiunas |
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October 2007 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Were the Allies wrong to carpet-bomb German cities during World War II?
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July/August 2007 |
Algis Valiunas |
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Have we seen the last of the opera world's notorious goddesses?
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December 2006 |
Algis Valiunas |
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November 2006 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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September 2006 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Recent literary imports bring their own kind of news, much of it bad.
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July/August 2006 |
Algis Valiunas |
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Flaming out young, he left behind an American literary masterpiece.
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February 2006 |
Algis Valiunas |
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There is more to melancholy, and to mania, than is dreamed of in modern psychopharmacology.
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January 2006 |
Algis Valiunas |
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The work of the high priestess of reason continues to sell, but "with reason" her centenary has gone uncelebrated.
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September 2005 |
Algis Valiunas |
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Three recent movies mine the depths of our intimate lives, to rather different effect.
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May 2005 |
Algis Valiunas |
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For better but especially for worse, championship boxing has long captured the tragedy of American race relations.
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March 2005 |
Algis Valiunas |
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February 2005 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Their famous political dispute was won not by the "more intelligent" man but by the better one.
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January 2005 |
Algis Valiunas |
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November 2004 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre, reviewed by Algis Valiunas.
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June 2004 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
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Even more dismal than his novels is the social vision of the master of Latin American fiction.
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April 2004 |
Algis Valiunas |
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A 50th-anniversary reissue of the novelist's early masterpiece allows us to see how he got here from there.
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September 2003 |
Algis Valiunas |
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The demand for reparations can neither erase the founders' wrongs nor address the dilemma of today's blacks.
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November 2002 |
Algis Valiunas |
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The "modern Caesar" achieved unprecedented glory--also, death and ruin on a vast scale.
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June 2002 |
Algis Valiunas |
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Love, death, society, art, time, timelessness--and (perhaps) the greatest novelist of the 20th century.
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December 2000 |
Algis Valiunas |
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January 2000 |
Reviewed by Algis Valiunas |
