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Cold Comforts
... Vivantes Shirley found a surrogate family of intellectuals well connected in Italian literary and anti-fascist circles, as well as new friendships with visitors like Dwight Macdonald, who also stayed at...
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Deeper into Cocaine
... the film’s revisionist approach to genre. Wasson sometimes goes for the California gothic of Ross Macdonald’s detective novels, but the way he writes is the opposite of hard-boiled. He’s too in...
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Think Pieces
... stab of nostalgia for a time when American intellectuals--let alone novelists, critics, and poets--could be said to have actual power. Macdonald’s long review of Michael Harrington’ s The Other...
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The Solipsist State
... to bring a fanciful neocon slogan to life. Yet as Michael MacDonald argues in his new book, Overreach, the botched ideal of de-Ba’athifcation was more than an exclusively neocon project. Focusing...
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The March of Folly
... finished. Not before.” For most Americans, the First Afghan War, which took place from 1839 to 1842, is probably remembered, if at all, as the backdrop for George MacDonald Fraser’s very first Flashman...
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Dec 13, 2012 @ 12:19:00 am
... be finished, holidays to be taken, weddings to attend in Rio, etc.)...” Joe McGinness has a new e-book out about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder trial in...
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Cult Hero
... magazine he happened to be running. Michael Wreszin’s oddly entertaining biography of Macdonald, which makes copious use of the phrase “shouting match,” narrates a particularly ugly parent-teacher...
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PAST IMPERFECT
... Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger, the slave-trade book, split the Booker Prize in 1992 with a more famous and rather gooey historical fiction, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. And since the late ’80s, a...
