October 2005 - The American Mag

The Year of Magical Thinking

By Book Staff| 2018-03-21T18:28:42+01:00 October 23rd, 2005|Recent Reviews|

Joan Didion's memoir of a year-gone-bad is brilliant but at times oddly unaffecting.

By Christopher P. Winner| 2018-03-21T18:20:02+01:00 October 22nd, 2005|Area 51|

If secular Saddam is smug it because Iraq’s current state of affairs rationalizes the intentions of his tyranny.

By Marcia Yarrow| 2018-03-21T18:31:45+01:00 October 21st, 2005|Reviews|

Only Jarmusch puts Mitchum, Depp, and Iggy Pop in a mystical B&W Western.

By Christopher P. Winner| 2018-03-21T18:19:59+01:00 October 15th, 2005|Area 51|

The flu terrifies because it’s familiar, the perfect harbor for vicarious worry, both imaginable and medieval.

By Marcia Yarrow| 2018-03-21T18:31:05+01:00 October 10th, 2005|Reviews|

Harris' labor of love yields a vivid, damaged Pollock.

By Christopher P. Winner| 2018-03-21T18:19:56+01:00 October 7th, 2005|Area 51|

Rome had a peculiar effect on the British men I once knew. It appeared to operate in a guilt-free zone.

By Christopher P. Winner| 2018-03-21T18:19:54+01:00 October 2nd, 2005|Area 51|

Mastodontic. Plethora. Sagacious. Words are first passage to adulthood.

By Charmaine Wilkerson| 2018-03-21T18:18:30+01:00 October 1st, 2005|First Person|

I love Italian women for the pride they take in their appearance.

By Megan K. Williams| 2018-03-21T18:29:10+01:00 October 1st, 2005|Recent Reviews|

Alexandra Fuller provides insight into Africa of the hardscrabble, post-colonial 1970s.

By Regina Wainstein| 2018-03-21T18:21:05+01:00 October 1st, 2005|Reviews|

When your suicide bomb doesn't go off, you're left between a rock and Israel.

By Marcia Yarrow| 2018-03-21T18:30:01+01:00 October 1st, 2005|Reviews|

Everyone's favorite "asshole/buddy" movie — but the laughs sound like gagging.