Creative Works

Rubin on Russia

And from the LA Times back in March: 'Magical Chorus' by Solomon Volkov The Russian musicologist surveys Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. By Martin Rubin, Special to The Times, March 7, 2008 "As its subtitle suggests, this engaging book, translated from its author's mother tongue,…

April 7, 2008

Martin Rubin: No on Coe

By and large the Martin Rubin reviews we've excerpted on this site are favorable reviews, but this one, not so much: Bookmarks By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal April 4, 2008 THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS By Jonathan Coe (Knopf, 240 pages, $23.95) Rosamond, who as a child was evacuated from wartime…

April 7, 2008

Catherine Ross Invitation

Catherine Ross writes: To all the members of the Class of '71: My husband, Jon Rieder (Yale Ph.D. '78), has a new book out on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am writing to invite you to an event at Barnes and Noble, Broadway and 82nd on Friday April 4, the 40th annniversary of Dr. King's death. The…

March 31, 2008

Protter Talk Apr. 3

Philip Protter, who teaches operations research at Cornell, will give the annual Bullitt Lecture at the University of Louisville on April 3. The topic is "Mathematics meets Wall Street: How high finance became safer and more dangerous at the same time." For a cute (yes, cute!) poster on the event,…

March 28, 2008

Rubin on Stegner Bio

Stegner's wild West: Wallace Stegner ---reviewed by Martin Rubin; Sunday, February 24, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Wallace Stegner and the American West By Philip L. Fradkin Knopf; 369 pages; $27.50 "Author of many books on the American West, western editor of Audubon magazine and a Pulitzer Prize-winning…

March 28, 2008

Rubin: Islamism and Nazism

When Nazis and Islamic extremists bonded By Martin Rubin
February 24, 2008 (Washington Times) JIHAD AND JEW-HATRED: ISLAMISM, NAZISM AND THE ROOTS OF 9/11 By Matthias Kuntzel Telos Press Publishing, $29.95, 180 pages

February 24, 2008

Rubin: Besotted by Books

Besotted by Books 'Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat,' by Nicholas A. Basbanes (Fine Books Press: 210 pp., $27.95) By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times February 23, 2008

February 24, 2008

Rubin on ‘Fragile Diplomacy’

The Saxon Angle: Porcelain Politics By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2008 (p. W11) Fragile Diplomacy Edited by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger Yale University Press, 369 pages, $125

February 22, 2008

Rubin on Kazin

Thursday, February 7, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Review: Kazin's diaries enliven Cook biography By Martin Rubin Alfred Kazin A Biography By Richard M. Cook YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS; 452 PAGES; $35

February 10, 2008

Review: ‘Day’ by A.L. Kennedy

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Review: Inside the rattled mind of a British World War II vet Martin Rubin Day By A.L. Kennedy KNOPF; 274 PAGES; $24 Day by A.L. Kennedy (Knopf)Born in…

January 17, 2008