The incantatory and deceptive powers of storytelling have always been central to Peter Straub's novels. From the quartet of aging, dissembling raconteurs in Ghost Story (1979) to the lurid pageantry and masques of Shadowland (1980), Straub artfully layers and arranges smaller stories to construct

in print

Feb/Mar 2010 Contents

Nick Antosca on A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
Ben Schwartz on Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind and Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson
Eric Banks on A Time for Everything by Karl O. Knausgard
Clay Risen on Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph and We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Stephen Tuck

Omnivore

Romania 20 years later

From Romanian Review on Political Geography, Liviu Bogdan Vlad, Gheorghe Hurduzeu, and Andrei Josan (BAES): Geopolitical Reconfigurations in the Black Sea Area at the Beginning of the 21st Century. From Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites, an essay on Romanian Rural Tourism between Authentic/Traditional and Modern/Contemporary. From FT, who won the Romanian revolution? Former members of the oppressive old guard are flourishing in Bucharest’s new order. Twenty years on from the fall of Ceausescu, Romanian filmmakers are finally learning how to make people laugh about their country’s dark past. The enduring legacy of Romania's Securitate: How those who terrorized Romanians under communism continue to instill fear. Elise Hugus on Romania 20