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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged 11 september 2001, ireland, joseph oneill, not recommended, pantheon books, usa
Way of the World
WHYY’s Fresh Air interviews Ron Suskind. Suskind’s book, The Way of the World, alleges criminal behavior in the push for war with Iraq.
Posted in Reading
Tagged 11 september 2001, interview, npr, politics, ron suskind, usa, war
Ideologically Diseased
In the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, “the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.”
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Tagged 11 september 2001, book review, dwight garner, joseph oneill, new york times, usa
Writing Man's Burden
. . .when Mr. Amis writes as a strong, consistent, and unambiguous foe of Islamic extremism, he is bucking the timidly relativist consensus of the British intelligentsia. At a time when even the Archbishop of Canterbury is prepared to see sharia become the law of the land, Mr. Amis’s unequivocal defense of liberal, secular values — of feminism, humanism, skepticism, and democracy — is genuinely brave.
In the New York Sun, Adam Kirsch reviews Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.
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Tagged 11 september 2001, adam kirsch, book review, martin amis, nysun, uk, usa
Least Favorite Son
In the Village Voice, Giles Harvey previews Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: September 11, Terror & Boredom.
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Tagged 11 september 2001, giles harvey, martin amis, preview, uk, usa, village voice
The Looming Tower
The London Review of Books has James Meek’s review of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright.
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Tagged 11 september 2001, book review, james meek, lawrence wright, london review of books