On Twitter Ron Charles links to an article by Christina Hoff Sommers in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dr. Sommers asserts that errors in feminist scholarship are particularly persistent because every correction is viewed as a personal attack.
Not recommended.
At the Guardian Stuart Evers wonders why contemporary British literary novels rarely “venture outside the greater London confines.”
Reading these tales of bluff, brusque people who wrestle clumsily with emotions, you get the impression that self-analysis may be less popular in some parts of the country than it is on the coasts.
For the New York Times, Liesl Schillinger reviews Robert Boswell’s The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards.
The Literary Review has Richard Overy’s critique of Bertrand M. Patenaude’s Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky.
Recommended with reservations.
What is the deal with Western men’s erotic obsession with the East?
At Salon Laura Miller reviews Richard Bernstein’s The East, the West, and Sex.
The American Booksellers Association’s Emerging Leaders project has a list of reasons to buy books from independent sellers.
