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The Informant and Son of the Rough South examine the dynamics of moral choice through the lens of the civil rights movement.

In high school I suffered from a case of unrequited admiration; a
favorite teacher barely knew my name.

John Harris's history of the Clinton Administration deserves much of the praise it has received, but it ignores the media's anti-Clinton animus.

Strom Thurmond's black daughter tells her story.

Victor Navasky's new memoir of opinion journalism.

A review of two recent memoirs of Iran.

Reviews of recent books on Bob Dylan.

Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.

In no literature in the world has the immigrant novel been more varied, more original, more persistent than in ours--and this for the most obvious of reasons.

In the largest exodus in recorded history, millions of refugees migrated across the brand new border after India was partitioned in 1947.