Jason Epstein
Jason Epstein was for many years editorial director of Random House and has written on food for various publications. (March 2008)
From the Review
May 15, 2008: The Big Food Menace (letter)
March 20, 2008: A New Way to Think About Eating
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
December 20, 2007: Norman Mailer (1923–2007) (letter)
March 15, 2007: Hurry Up Please It's Time
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione
November 30, 2006: 'Books @ Google' (letter)
October 19, 2006: Books@Google
Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe by Jean-Noël Jeanneney,translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
Libraries and Google edited by William Millerand Rita M. Pellen
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
June 8, 2006: Eating Out
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
My Life in France by Julia Child, with Alex Prud'homme
May 25, 2006: Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006 (letter)
October 7, 2004: Mystery in the Heartland
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
May 1, 2003: Leviathan
December 19, 2002: Up with Downtown
A New Deal for New York by Mike Wallace
July 5, 2001: Reading: The Digital Future
November 2, 2000: The Coming Revolution
May 25, 2000: Stalingrad, cont'd. (letter)
April 27, 2000: The Rattle of Pebbles
April 13, 2000: The Stalingrad Front (letter)
March 9, 2000: 'Time to Kill' (letter)
November 4, 1999: Always Time to Kill
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 by David M. Glantz, with German translations by Mary E. Glantz
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
The First World War by John Keegan
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
March 5, 1998: Prophet
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde a play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. at the Minetta Lane Theater, New York City
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society by Michael S. Foldy
Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century by Philip Hoare
April 24, 1997: V. S. Pritchett, 1900–1997
April 10, 1997: No Laffer Matter (letter)
October 17, 1996: White Mischief
Up from Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America by Michael Lind
The World Turned Right Side Up: A history of the Conservative Ascendancy in America by Godfrey Hodgson
November 16, 1995: Metropolitan Life
The Encyclopedia of New York City edited by Kenneth T. Jackson
June 8, 1995: The Man with Qualities
Edmund Wilson: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson selected and introduced by Janet Groth, by David Castronovo
April 21, 1994: A Dissent on 'Schindler's List'
June 11, 1992: 'How New York Fell': An Exchange
April 9, 1992: The Tragical History of New York
March 1, 1990: The Decline and Rise of Publishing
October 9, 1986: Edmund Wilson at Ease
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Leon Edel
April 24, 1986: Handle with Felt Gloves (letter)
September 23, 1982: Going for Broke
The Coming Boom: Economic, Political, and Social by Herman Kahn
The Imperious Economy by David P. Calleo
October 23, 1980: Is the Party Over?
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross
Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression by Douglas R. Casey
February 21, 1980: Help!
How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard J. Ruff
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritikin, by Patrick M. McGrady Jr.
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower, by Samm Sinclair Baker
February 17, 1977: Capitalism & Socialism: Declining Returns
The Twilight of Capitalism by Michael Harrington
The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America by Peter F. Drucker
"The Falling Share of Profits," by William D. Nordhaus. in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, edited by Arthur M. Okun, by George L. Perry
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off by Arthur M. Okun
February 19, 1976: The Last Days of New York
December 13, 1973: The Big Freeze
May 17, 1973: What Price Growth? (letter)
April 5, 1973: Can We Afford Sliced Eggplant?
The Retreat from Riches: Affluence and Its Enemies by Peter Passell, by Leonard Ross
November 2, 1972: The Missionary
Henry Luce by William Swanberg
July 20, 1972: E. W. 1895–1972
April 22, 1971: Peace Evening (letter)
March 11, 1971: Radical Chic (letter)
December 17, 1970: Journal du Voyeur
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
February 12, 1970: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Allen Ginsberg on the Stand
December 4, 1969: A Special Supplement: The Trial of Bobby Seale
July 10, 1969: Publishing in Spain (letter)
May 8, 1969: Mayer Culpa (letter)
April 10, 1969: Dropped Lines (letter)
March 13, 1969: The Real McCoy
The Teachers Strike: New York, 1968 by Martin Mayer
January 16, 1969: The Ocean Hill Battle (letter)
November 21, 1968: The Issue at Ocean Hill
October 10, 1968: The Brooklyn Dodgers
June 6, 1968: The Politics of School Decentralization
Reconnection for Learning: A Community School System for New York City York City Schools; McGeorge Bundy, chairman
May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)
July 13, 1967: Regis Debray (letter)
April 20, 1967: The CIA and the Intellectuals
January 6, 1966: Living in New York
July 1, 1965: I Got Plenty o' Money
The Rockefeller Billions by Jules Abels
December 31, 1964: The New Education
The New Curricula edited by Robert W. Heath
October 22, 1964: Letters (letter)
July 9, 1964: Epstein's English Usage (letter)
June 11, 1964: Looking Backward
The Privacy Invaders by Myron Brenton
The Naked Society by Vance Packard
What Is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer
The Conservative Papers Introduction by Representative Melvin Laird
June 11, 1964: The Literary Life (letter)
November 28, 1963: Wilson's Amerika
The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest by Edmund Wilson
November 28, 1963: More on Dr. Yes (letter)
November 14, 1963: I'm All Right, Jack (letter)
October 31, 1963: Dr. Yes
The First New Nation by S.M. Lipset
September 26, 1963: Wasteland
Night Comes to the Cumberlands…… by Harry Caudill
February 1, 1963: New Editions
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited by J.B. Bury
Books by Jason Epstein
Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future (2001)
The Great Conspiracy Trial; An Essay on Law, Liberty, and the Constitution (1970)