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Joan Acocella
Leonard became famous as a crime novelist, but he didn’t like being grouped with most of the big names in that genre, people such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He disapproved of their melodrama, their pessimism, their psychos and nymphos and fancy writing.
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Jana Prikryl
It’s one of the ironies attached to the gleefully gothic and priapic film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders that it was made just as Czechoslovakia succumbed to the strictures of “normalization” following the Soviet invasion in 1968.
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MORE IN THE REVIEW'S FALL BOOKS ISSUE
Jessica Mathews on US foreign policy
James Surowiecki on Joseph Stiglitz
Dan Chiasson on Elizabeth Bishop
Jim Holt on explaining science
Diane Johnson on Go Set a Watchman
Jed Perl on contemporary painting
Assaf Sharon on Jewish terrorists
Nicholas Kenyon on music in Venezuela
Roberto Calasso on Indian classics
James Lardner on the Black Panthers
Ingrid Rowland on an Egyptian sculpture
Oliver Sacks’s last case history
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Ian Johnson
Ai: I’ve been beaten, I’ve been locked up. I’ve been under high pressure. But still, I have to really think beyond that. I have to put my personal suffering separate from the larger picture of the nation.
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David Cole
George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell, with virtually no human contact and no phone calls absent an emergency.
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Christopher Benfey
Erich Salomon pioneered the use of hidden cameras—the phrase “candid camera” was first applied to him. A 1924 Ermanox, concealed in bowler hats and briefcases, allowed him to take photographs in places where they were strictly prohibited.
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