Critical Essay by Merle Miller
Leon Uris has done the nearly impossible. He has written a wonderfully different kind of war novel…. His "Battle Cry" is nearly as long as the othe...
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Critical Essay by Sharon D. Downey and Richard A. Kallan
After eight novels—Battle Cry, The Angry Hills, Exodus, Mila 18, Armageddon, Topaz, QB VII, and Trinity—Leon Uris continues to p...
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Critical Essay by George Mcmillan
The conventions of World War II fiction are hardening. Following them, the novelists assemble a group of self-conscious types meant to represent a cross-section of A...
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Critical Essay by David Dempsey
Send an American novelist to Europe, set the time during the German occupation, pick almost any country and make the girl a creature of the Underground and you are pre...
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Critical Essay by Time
Hmm. Bank balance down. Time to do another Big Novel. But what about?… Got it! Berlin and the airlift. It has flyers and wild blue yonders, and conflict with the Russkie...
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Critical Essay by Cade Ware
Like Mr. Uris' other novels, Armageddon is a vast panorama of people, places, situations both fictional and quasi-historic, and romantic sentiment rather easy to co...
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All this to say that one commenter, Judy, has responded to my somewhat-snarky take on the Da Vinci Code and explained the popular impact of its ideas. Go read her comment in full. Here are some key...
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HAIFA, Israel, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A cruise liner carrying
some 300 Jewish passengers docked in the Israeli port of Haifa
on Thursday in a symbolic re-enactment of an attempt by European
Jews to set...
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That rage made Rosenthal an electrifying writer, early on, and it animated one of his achievements as a journalist that yesterday's Times obit didn't highlight—the exploration of the Holocaust...
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Critical Essay by Merle Miller
More on the Da Vinci Code's Appeal
