Monday, February 1 2010
The Lives of Others
There's a higher ratio of disposable schlock in the memoir than in other literary genres, but the best memoirs permit access to lives strange, twisted, wasted, brave, and glorious -- lives, in short, other than our own.
Thursday, May 19 2005
My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor’s Tale by James Atlas
Atlas is at his best in the essays where he examines larger issues that resonate in his own life.
