Nan Goldberg
By Nan Goldberg
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Culture Dennis Ross and His Perilous Balancing Act on Israel
Doomed To Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama By Dennis Ross Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 Pages, $30 Israel: Is it good for the Americans? According to Dennis Ross, who has served as a Middle East negotiator or consultant, or both, in four administrations, including the current one, this is a question that…
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Culture Is There an E.L. Doctorow in the House?
Andrew’s Brain: A Novel By E.L. Doctorow Random House, $26, 224 pages Is it just me, or does the idea of psychotherapy seem sort of hopelessly 20th century? All those not-quite-hours; all that money; all that talk talk talk talk talk — all to unearth, finally, the tiniest molecules of self-knowledge. Doesn’t it seem a…
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Culture Gary Greenberg Psychoanalyzes Psychoanalysis
● The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry By Gary Greenberg Blue Rider Press, 416 pages, $28.95 Any psychiatrist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. Substituting the word “psychiatrist” for the original word,…
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Culture How Michael Lavigne Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Suicide Bomb
● The Wanting By Michael Lavigne Schocken Books, 336 pages, $25.95 ‘The Wanting” starts with a bang — literally — when a body part flies past the large plate-glass window of Roman Guttman’s office. Roman is pretty sure it was a head. He sees the head go by, then he hears the explosion; then his…
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