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Lee Siegel

Book Critic

Lee Siegel, a regular book critic for The Nation, also writes about television for The New Republic and on art for Slate. His writing has also appeared in publications from New York Times and The New Yorker to Radical History Review and Tikkun. In 2002 he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.

Currently

  • The Tower of Babel

    November 17, 2005 Subscribe

    Jerome Charyn's Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel examines the life the revolutionary idealist murdered by Stalin in 1940 and explodes the literary myths that have thus far defined his works.

  • Letters

    October 12, 2005 Subscribe

  • Rushdie's Receding Talent

    September 15, 2005

    It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.

  • The Unexamined Life

    August 11, 2005

    Sean Wilsey's new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco's high society.

  • Look at Me

    May 26, 2005

    Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

  • Bellow's Lonely Planet

    April 21, 2005

    The world Saul Bellow made.

  • The Imagination of Disaster

    March 24, 2005

  • The Moviegoer

    January 27, 2005

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