By Adam Begley 4/21/08 5:18pm

Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Abraham Obama; The Call of the Wild; A Gem from Richard Bausch; No Bun = No Burger

Garry Wills, writing in The New York Review of Books (www.nybooks.com), compares Barack Obama’s speech on race last month in Philadelphia with the address Abraham Lincoln delivered at the Cooper Union in New York on Feb. 27, 1860. In fact, the two speeches are very different, the glaring distinction being that Lincoln’s knotty, cerebral Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 2/15/99 12:00am

Angry Novelist’s E-mail Attack on Senator John Warner

Yes, Virginia, There Is No Senator Warner

As that mottled, wattled crew on Capitol Hill drones on about the President, there is the unmistakable notion that our nation’s Representatives and Senators are mouthing the words to a particularly loathsome Top 40 tune. The song not only remains the same, it is sung with the kind Read More