NYT Books in Review: “Against the Machine,” “Artists in Exile”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Lanchester-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, by Lee Siegel

“The Internet…is the first social environment to serve the needs of the ‘asocial individual.'”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Lopate-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts, by Joseph Horowitz

“Low public taste standards and commercial pressures…stifled the exiles’ creativity.”

 

 

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