Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban's books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
From the Review
November 19, 2009: American Pastoral
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn
March 26, 2009: Metronatural America
Wendy and Lucy a film by Kelly Reichardt, adapted from a story by Jon Raymond
Livability: Stories by Jon Raymond
December 18, 2008: The Prodigious Pessimist
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal edited by Jay Parini
September 25, 2008: Crashing the Party
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
June 14, 2007: Iris Murdoch's Holy Fool (letter)
April 12, 2007: Cracks in the House of Rove
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan
October 5, 2006: The Prisoners Speak
The Road to Guantánamo a film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross
Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar by Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain
Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies
July 13, 2006: The Good Soldier
Terrorist by John Updike
September 22, 2005: September 11: The View from the West
June 23, 2005: A Tragic Grandeur
The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton
January 13, 2005: The Truth About Terrorism
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism by Stephen Flynn
Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security—An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State by Matthew Brzezinski
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by "Anonymous" (Michael Scheuer)
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke
The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis
August 12, 2004: The Threat from the Sea
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche
September 25, 2003: Robert Lowell: An Exchange
November 30, 2000: The Last Harpoon
A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and Their Canoe by Robert Sullivan
November 18, 1999: Passage to Juneau
June 10, 1999: Journey to the End of the Night
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander. Published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where Caroline Alexander has co-curated an exhibition that includes the James Caird and more than 150 of Frank Hurley's photographs: "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," April 10-October 11, 1999.
Shackleton by Roland Huntford
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Ernest Shackleton
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F.A. Worsley, with a preface by Patrick O'Brian
Shackleton's Boat Journey by F.A. Worsley
South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919) a film by Frank Hurley
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott, with a new introduction by Beryl Bainbridge
Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander
April 20, 1995: Walden-on-Sea
July 14, 1994: On the Waterfront
Alongshore by John Stilgoe
The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750-1840 by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps
Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge by Ann Breen, by Dick Rigby. maps by Diane Charyk Norris and Charles Norris
February 17, 1994: At Home in Babel
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
October 25, 1984: Hard Times
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge
November 4, 1982: Innocents Abroad
J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice by Graham Greene
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
June 24, 1982: Going Strong
Collected Stories by V.S. Pritchett
The Turn of the Years: "As Old as the Century" by V.S. Pritchett
"The Seasons' Course" selected engravings by Reynolds Stone
January 21, 1982: Now, Voyager
Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young
From New York Review Books
 | My Holy War Ranging from Seattle to Cairo, from the high seas to the US presidential campaign, Raban brings a distinctive and often unexpected perspective to the issues facing post–September 11 America. |
Books by Jonathan Raban
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (1999)
Soft City (1998)
Bad Land: An American Romance (1996)
Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990)
God, Man, and Mrs. Thatcher (1989)
For Love & Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling, 1969-1987 (1987)
Coasting (1986)
Foreign Land: A Novel (1985)
Old Glory, an American Voyage (1981)
Arabia Through the Looking Glass (1979)
Soft City (1974)
The Society of the Poem (1971)
The Technique of Modern Fiction: Essays in Practical Criticism (1968)
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn (1968)