Michael Ignatieff
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Isaiah Berlin: A Life
Michael Ignatieff
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in Riga in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, he became a presiding judge of Western intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic: historian of the Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny. When he died in 1997, he was hailed as the most important liberal philosopher of his time.
But Berlin’s life was not only a life…
Michael Ignatieff
At the heart of Michael Ignatieff’s riveting novel about a woman’s descent into neurological illness are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected—as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as by the painful ties of familial loyalty.
A philosophy professor watches helplessly as his mother sinks into the mysterious depths of an unknown illness. His efforts to understand her gradual deterioration—from innocently misplaced eyeglasses and endlessly repeated anecdotes to a total loss of identity—lead him…
