Creative Works
Review: Diamonds, Gold & War
BOOK REVIEW Martin Meredith: "Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa" By Martin Rubin, Special to The LA Times January 1, 2008 THE story of how the discovery of diamonds and then of gold transformed the agrarian backwater of South Africa has been told many…
January 1, 2008
Krasilovsky Film Honored
Alexis Krasilovsky writes (12/29/07): I'm proud to let classmates know that my 90-minute documentary Women Behind the Camera won the 2007 Spirit of Moondance Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film screened recently at the Plus CamerImage International Film Festival of the Art of…
December 30, 2007
Bruner on Art and Business
In the December 24 Washington Post, Robert Bruner writes, in an article entitled "The Brush Strokes of Business": Recently I saw the Edward Hopper exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. You must see it. Hopper was one of the leading American realist painters of the 20th century.…
December 24, 2007
The Real Sweeney Todd…
'The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd' by Robert L. Mack
Exploring an urban legend
By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times
December 20, 2007
December 12, 2007
Rubin on ‘The Mitfords’
Words Between Wayward AristocratsBy MARTIN RUBINWall Street JournalDecember 7, 2007; Page W6THE MITFORDSEdited by Charlotte Mosley(Harper, 834 pages, $39.95)Near the end of Nancy Mitford's novel "The Pursuit of Love" (1945) comes a delicious Mitford moment when two young aristocrats, in an English…
December 7, 2007
Rubin on Coward Letters
In the LA Times, Martin Rubin reviews 'The Letters of Noel Coward,' edited by Barry Day: The Master's voice By Martin Rubin Special to The Times - Dec. 1, 2007 The portrait on the cover of "The Letters of Noel Coward" complements perfectly this fascinating and revealing new collection. The…
December 1, 2007
Rubin on ‘The Tenth Muse’
Friday, October 26, 2007---SF Chronicle Editor who gave us Julia Child reflects on her own life in food Martin Rubin The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food By Judith Jones KNOPF; 304 PAGES; $24.95 "In the early 1950s, Judith Jones returned to the United States after several years in Paris. Hired as an…
November 10, 2007
Rubin on Joyce Carol Oates
From the Oct 5 San Francisco Chronicle, an excerpt from Martin Rubin's perhaps surprising review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: "When you think of Joyce Carol Oates, you think of passionate writing, intensity of feeling, lurid situations. The last words you would associate with her would…
October 6, 2007
Rubin on Roth’s ‘Exit Ghost’
Martin Rubin reviews Philip Roth's new novel in the Sept. 30 Washington Times: EXIT GHOST By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, $26, 292 pages REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN So Nathan Zuckerman is back. Philip Roth has once more brought that particular alter ego to us, apparently for the final time. But the…
September 30, 2007