Politics and Life, Inextricably Intertwined
Judith B. Walzer: Politics and Life, Inextricably Intertwined
Winter 2024
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Literature and the Vietnam War
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo 1977, 346 pp. Bombingham by Anthony Grooms 2001, 320 pp. Dispatches by Michael Herr 1968, 260 pp. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 2007, 702 pp. War Story Jim Morris 1979, 342 pp. …
Yes, Ms. President? 
Last year, during the battle for the Democratic Party nomination, the rivals tried to keep both race and gender out of the campaign. After the conventions, with the entrance of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin into the mix, the …
The Breakthrough: Feminism and Literary Criticism
How do we know when something starts or when a new phenomenon becomes a major trend? We don’t have a “big bang” theory for the “second wave” of the women’s movement. The common wisdom has been that it began when …
The Turmoil of Life
Simply by choosing to write a biography of Josephine Herbst, an almost forgotten American writer (1892-1969), Elinor Langer demonstrates both courage and an eye for an unconventional subject. Women who lead “lesser lives” are not sure bets for full-length biographies. …
After the Movement
In Civil Wars, Rosellen Brown has created a remarkable personal view of the long-term effect of the 1960s civil rights movement on two of its participants. Teddy Carll, a native Mississippian, and Jessie Singer, a “red-diaper baby” from New York, meet …
The Badness of “Julia”
This is a bad movie. Surprisingly so, since it had a naturally sympathetic subject on which there is likely to be universal agreement in feeling. The reviewers haven’t let on to its failure, perhaps they didn’t notice. Its badness is …
