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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel
Category: Culture
Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of high-tech solitude. Arguing that the internet's widesp ...Show more
Falling Upward by Lee Siegel
Category: Culture
A critical gunslinger takes aim at the highs and lows of American culture at the close of the 20th century, and looks to what lies ahead. "Falling Upwards" brings together the best writing of one of America's pre-eminent cultural critics. An astute observer of the evolving relationship between art and c ...Show more
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
The Draw - A Memoir by Lee Siegel
Category: Fiction
A "What We're Reading This Summer" Pick byThe Atlantic The Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" (New York Times Book Review)about a boy striving to make his way up through society and out of a family that has been emotionally and psychologically devastated by economic misfortune. Lee S ...Show more
Walter Benjamin: The Story Of A Friendship by Gershom Gerhard Scholem; Lee Siegel (Introduction by); Harry Zohn (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century's most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his ...Show more
Why Argument Matters by Siegel Lee
Category: Reference
An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement… . Sharp and taut… . A lesson in a well-constructed argument itself. -Publishers Weekly, starred review Perhaps more t ...Show more
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