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Book Reviews by Peter Berard
Published: Jul 21, 2020
Peter Berard reviews Margaret Hagerman's book White Kids.
Published: Oct 17, 2020
Peter Berard looks at Hemingway's classic.
Published: May 02, 2021
“Popular participation in a nationalist liturgy — a full-fledged secular religion”
Published: Nov 21, 2021
“Who does half-smart like a renegade Trotskyite?”
Published: Jun 30, 2021
". . . [a] sententious performance of intellect, slathered over a fundamental lack of insight or even curiosity . . ."
Published: Jun 09, 2021
Published: Mar 31, 2021
Can the long tradition of war prognostication in novel form be called honorable?
Published: Mar 10, 2021
Peter Berard Revisits the Seventies
Published: Jan 25, 2021
Peter Berard reads right-wing shit so you don't have to.
Published: Dec 02, 2020
Berard on Lovecraft, Lehane and the Puritan Legacy
Published: Nov 30, 2020
Peter Berard reviews The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown.
Published: Apr 07, 2021
How much color can a thriller hold before it ceases to be a thriller?
Published: Mar 26, 2021
SAR Book Review Editor Peter Berard finally reads Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.
Published: Sep 27, 2020
Post-war academia and counterculture fight queer liberation.
Published: May 30, 2021
Were opportunities to bring about parity missed?
Published: Mar 20, 2022
Berard v Rougon-Macquart
Published: May 06, 2020
Published: Aug 12, 2020
The author of A Dangerous Energy expands upon his outlook, methods and future works.
Audiobook Reviews by Peter Berard, Ph.D.
All Work by Peter Berard, Ph.D.
Published: Aug 12, 2020
The author of A Dangerous Energy expands upon his outlook, methods and future works.
Published: Jul 09, 2020
The American counterculture's desire to live irresponsibly is reflected in Ishmael Reed's work.
Published: Jan 26, 2020
Published: May 02, 2021
“Popular participation in a nationalist liturgy — a full-fledged secular religion”
Published: Oct 17, 2020
Peter Berard looks at Hemingway's classic.
Published: May 06, 2020
Published: Jul 21, 2020
Peter Berard reviews Margaret Hagerman's book White Kids.
San Antonio Review’s inaugural Book Review Editor Peter John Berard, Ph.D., is a writer, historian and organizer living in Watertown, Mass. His work has appeared in Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books and DigBoston. Read all of his reviews at his blog, Too Much Berard, and newsletter, Melendy Avenue Review.
