In this edition of the translation that first appeared in the anthology, Heaney writes an introduction explaining that he decided to give the poem the voice of Northern Irish men he'd grown up with,.. read more
Deeply embittered, he turned to his old friend Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's alter mind (not alter ego, he insists), for help in writing a book... read more
Segev's aloofness can make him sound arrogant at times, and because he avoids analyzing the policies and strategies underlying modern Israel his history lacks a fundamental dimension... read more
Graham Robb, whose biographies of Balzac in 1994 and Victor Hugo in 1997 are triumphs of scholarship, now produces the best biography of Rimbaud... read more
One of her points is that no one ever did -- not its scientific champions, not its Congressional promoters and certainly not Reagan, who didn't try to understand... read more
