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Book reviews

One man as an island

by Michael Korda,

How Winston Churchill saved the world

Revising Vietnam, again

by James William Gibson,

A new history argues that Kennedy might have pulled us out

Arcadian adventures

by Mark Kingwell,

Walter Benjamin, the connoisseur of everyday life

Connubial abyss

by Kathryn Harrison,

The mysterious narrative of marriage

Our daily bread

by Frederick Kaufman,

On the triumph of American gastrosophy

Our man on Capri

by Michael Korda,

Remembering Graham Greene

Urban philosopher

by Michael Lind,

A walking tour of Lewis Mumford

Exile on Main Street

by Jonathan Dee,

A Russian writer tries his hand at the Great American Novel

It’s globalicious! Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy

by Thomas Frank,

Thus spoke Jedediah

by Roger D. Hodge,

The distilled wisdom of a cornpone prophet

I know why the caged bird cannot read

by Francine Prose,

How American high school students learn to loathe literature