I write about books, history, and culture. My articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe's Ideas and Books sections, the Financial Times, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The New Yorker (“Briefly Noted”), The National (Abu Dhabi), The New York Observer, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Salon, The New York Sun, Vogue, and Bookforum. Learn more about me here.
I can be reached at priceald@yahoo.com.
The Making of the Modern State
The National, December 24, 2009
Bared Minimalist: The Life of Raymond Carver
Bookforum, December/January 2010
The End Was Nigh
The National, August 20, 2009
Commuter Literate: The Life of John Cheever
Bookforum, April/May 2009
Alan Wolfe on Liberalism’s Future
The National, March 20, 2009
Read All About It: The Rise of William Randolph Hearst
The National, February 6, 2009
Cash Money: Niall Ferguson’s Financial History of the World
The National, November 20, 2008
George Scialabba: A Model Critic
Years ago, when I first started reading the quality literary and political…
Death of Everything (Cont’d)
Another week, another disaster for the newspaper industry. When I was blogging…
New Odds: Death of the Metro Daily
The New York Sun closed up shop today, and it’s sad to…
Breaking News: Death of the Metropolitan Daily
This just in: A newspaper right here in my own backyard—The New…
