The December/January 2009 issue of Bookforum pairs William V. Spanos’s forthcoming University of Illinois Press book The Legacy of Edward W. Said (January 2009) with The Soul of Barbed Wire: An Intoduction to Solzhenitsyn.

Comparing the two books Bookforum opines, “William V. Spanos’s The Legacy of Edward Said is … much crazier, more entertaining, and clearly engaged in a live battle for Said’s legacy.”