Alan Ashton-Smith has recently reviewed two Cornell University Press books at PopMatters:
Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination by John Griffith Urang was reviewed on October 27, 2010. Read the review here: ‘Legal Tender’: The Narrative of Love in East German Popular Culture
The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910 by William Nickell was reviewed on October 5: ‘The Death of Tolstoy Serves As a Study of Early Paparazzi