Another African-American Joins

From The Atlantic Monthly's September bullet reviews of dozens of new books:

Enough by Juan Williams (Crown)

In a book that often reads like a padded reprise of Bill Cosby's famed cri de coeur at a 2004 NAACP gala, the NPR correspondent raises the alarm about crime, misogyny, and poverty among African Americans. Despite its uninspired execution, Enough conveys genuine outrage and despair.

I also liked this bullet review:

Fortunate Son by Charles Ponce de Leon (Hill and Wang)

A brief new life of Elvis Presley emphasizes his conservative political values and inability to adjust to changing times (the King's surface chameleon tendencies notwithstanding).

If you haven't surmised yet, I spent a lot of time reading the most-recent issue of The Atlantic while on vacation. I always read large chunks of it, but the September issue came the day before I left. I was pretty excited to have such good, but disposable, reading material available every second of my trip.

By the way, if you can recommend any other mainstream magazines that offer literary and cultural fare like The Atlantic, I'd like to hear about them. The Atlantic goes leftward at times, but for the most part, it's just good, honest writing. I'd love to hear of another publication that does things as well. Email link is on the left.