| Date |
Periodical |
|
Title |
Book(s) reviewed, or topic
of article |
| Dec. 5,
1999 |
Weekly
Standard |
A |
Hell, No, Uighur Won't Go |
China's
colonial problem-- Eastern Turkestan |
| November
1999 |
The
New
Criterion |
R |
Serious about books |
The Book
on the Bookshelf, by Henry Petroski |
| Oct. 10,
1999 |
Washington
Post |
R |
The Storekeeper of Bedley Run |
A
Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee |
| Oct.
1999 |
The
New
Criterion |
R |
The Conquering Zero |
The
Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan |
| Sep.
19, 1999 |
Boston
Globe |
C |
Joining the delights
of reading and the fascinations of math |
Survey
of popular books about math and mathematicians |
| September
1999 |
The
New
Criterion |
C |
Sub specie aeternitatis |
The
novelist J.F. Powers |
| Aug. 24,
1999 |
New York
Times |
A |
A Library That's All Too Free |
NY
Public Library should charge fees |
| Aug. 30,
1999 |
National
Review |
R |
Swift Kicks |
Jonathan
Swift, by Victoria Glendinning |
| May 31,
1999 |
National
Review |
R |
Private Obsessions |
The
Limits of Privacy, by Amitai Etzioni
The End of Privacy, by Reg Whitaker |
| May 3,
1999 |
National
Review |
A |
Forget About It |
The
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dead Horses unmasked |
| Apr. 19,
1999 |
National
Review |
A |
The Anxious Class |
Revolutions
in our private lives -- financial vs. sexual |
| Apr. 11,
1999 |
Boston
Globe |
R |
Then 'twere well it
were done quickly |
The Late
Mr. Shakespeare, by Robert Nye |
| Mar. 22,
1999 |
National
Review |
A |
The Vital Middle |
In
praise of suburbia. |
| Dec. 31,
1998 |
National
Review |
R |
Fast Forward |
The
Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel |
| Dec. 7,
1998 |
National
Review |
R |
By The Numbers |
The Man
Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman
My Brain Is Open, by Bruce Schecter
A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar |
| Oct. 26,
1998 |
National
Review |
A |
Shall We Dance? |
I
discover ballroom dancing |
| Sep.
28, 1998 |
National
Review |
R |
Wholly Sanctimony |
I
Married a Communist, by Philip Roth |
| Sep.
20, 1998 |
Washington
Post |
R |
When Love Goes Wrong |
Europa,
by Tim Parks |
| Sep.
14, 1998 |
National
Review |
R |
A Writer All Through |
The
King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage, by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis: A Biography, by Eric Jacobs |
| Aug. 3,
1998 |
National
Review |
R |
Asian Minor |
The
Accidental Asian, by Eric Liu |
| July 26,
1998 |
Washington
Post |
R |
Reveries of Hanky Panky |
The
Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, by Mario Vargas Llosa |
| July 5,
1998 |
Boston
Globe |
C |
Whence the English Americans came, and what they wrought |
Survey
of some books on U.S. history |
| Mar. 15,
1998 |
Washington
Post |
R |
Scenes From a Century |
A Thread
of Years, by John Lukacs |
| Oct.
1997 |
Mathematics
Magazine |
L |
Repeated powers:
A comment in verse |
A
Petrarchan sonnet commenting on an article about repeated exponentiation |
| Sept.
21, 1997 |
Washington
Post |
R |
Currents of Memory |
A
Floating Life, by Simon Elegant |
| Apr. 21,
1997 |
Weekly
Standard |
R |
Still Life with Nukes |
Purple
America, by Rick Moody |
| Mar. 10,
1997 |
Weekly
Standard |
R |
Who China Lost |
Hungry
Ghosts, by Jasper Becker |
| Oct. 13,
1996 |
Washington
Post |
R |
Textual Politics |
The
Handmaid of Desire, by John L'Heureux |
| May 26,
1996 |
Washington
Post |
R |
Food for Thought |
The Debt
to Pleasure, by John Lanchester |
|
April 1996 |
The American Spectator |
L |
Love and Marriage |
An
appreciation of the TV show "Married With Children." |
| Jan. 9,
1996 |
Wall
Street Journal |
L |
No Sweat |
Sonnet
in response to a reader's noticing that the U.S. Postal Service had substituted
"sleet" for "heat" when including its motto in some promotional
material. |
| Jul. 26,
1992 |
Newsday |
L |
In Praise of Britannia's
Beneficent Rule |
Response
to anti-British article by crank P.C. columnist |
| Sep.
1991 |
Dr.
Dobb's Journal |
L |
The Mandarin Middle Management Conspiracy |
Software
engineers vs. paper-shufflers. |
| Feb.
1991 |
Literary
Review |
R |
*China's Bad Old Days |
Shanghai,
by Harriet Sergeant |
| May 27,
1989 |
Spectator |
A |
*From Dumplings to Democracy |
Report
on press conference by Chinese Democratic Party |
| Fall
1988 |
American
Scholar |
R |
*The Beggars' Democracy |
Chinese
Intellectuals in Crisis, by Hao Chang |
| Jul. 25,
1987 |
Spectator |
A |
*Getting Married in Manchuria |
An
account of my marriage |
| ? Mid
1985 |
Daily
Telegraph |
R |
*Three Chinese Sisters |
The
Soong Dynasty, by Sterling Seagrave |
| Apr. 30,
1985 |
Daily
Telegraph |
R |
*Bolthole to superstar |
Strategy
for Survival, by Chiao Chiao Hsieh |
| ? Early
1985 |
Spectator |
R |
*China from inside and out |
Stones
of the Wall, by Dai Houying
To Get Rich is Glorious, by Orville Schell |
| Jan. 24,
1985 |
Daily
Telegraph |
R |
*Stony Ground |
Shamans,
Lamas and Evangelicals: the English Missionaries in Siberia, by C.R. Bawden |
| Nov. 16,
1984 |
Daily
Telegraph |
A |
*The Great Wall of bureaucracy between China and
reform |
Points
out difficulty of economic reform in China |
| June 22,
1984 |
Daily
Telegraph |
R |
*'Paradise' Lost |
Return
to Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer |
| ? Early
1984 |
Daily
Telegraph |
R |
*The 'Saint' beside Mao |
Chou:
the Story of Zhou Enlai, by Dick Wilson |
| ? Mar.
1984 |
Daily
Telegraph |
A |
*China's inscrutable face hides a lost cause for
the West |
Pours
cold water on mid-1980s enthusiasm for China |
| Mar. 12,
1984 |
Daily
Telegraph |
A |
*China's Brutal Sham |
Attacks
TV series The Heart of the Dragon |
| Jul. 30,
1983 |
Spectator |
A |
Dingnisheng and
Shasibiya |
Teaching
Eng. Lit. in China |
| Mar. 12,
1983 |
Spectator |
A |
Nepotism in North Korea |
Not very
serious account of the Kims |