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Christa Wolf, October 1989
Blind Spot: On Christa Wolf (Fiction, History, Books and the Arts)

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Holly Case
Pandsher Valley, September 2008
Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan (History, Books and the Arts, World)

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

Christian Parenti
Norman Davies
Shelf Life (History, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

Thomas Meaney
Twins (1968), by Alighiero Boetti
Putting the World Into the World: On Alighiero Boetti (Books and Ideas, Fiction, History, Books and the Arts)

Opposites collapse in the work of the Shaman-Showman of contemporary Italian art.

Barry Schwabsky
Food Fights (Books and Ideas, History, Books and the Arts, Society, World)

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Richard J. Evans
The door to John Lawrence’s apartment
From 'Brown' to 'Lawrence': On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights (Books and Ideas, Gender and Sexuality, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, History, Books and the Arts, Society)

Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.

Michael O'Donnell
Memorial for Václav Havel in Wenceslas Square
Havel's Specter: On Václav Havel (Books and Ideas, History, Books and the Arts, World)

The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

Caleb Crain
If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy's Human Mic... (Occupy Wall Street, History)

The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
 

Jonathan Schell
Gaddis's Kennan: Strategies of Disparagement (History)

Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
 

Eric Alterman
WPA poster advertising the 1938 production of Haiti
Shelf Life (History, Shelf Life, Books and the Arts)

Laurent Dubois’s Hati: The Aftershocks of History.

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Blogs

Football at Ground Zero: The 'Atom Bowl', Nagasaki, New Year's Day, 1946
Greg Mitchell

Was this the wildest football game ever?

December 31, 2012
Gay Baiting Gore Vidal: Politics in 1960
Jon Wiener

During his Congressional run in 1960, the late writer and Nation contributor fired back at a less-than-friendly newspaper publisher.

October 8, 2012
Beyond Obama: Could a True Socialist Actually Gain Power in America? How One Almost Did
Greg Mitchell

Here’s how it almost once happened here.

September 15, 2012
Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney: Together at Last
Jon Wiener

There’s a new Disney exhibit at the Reagan library. But what are drawings of Bambi and Cinderella doing in the National Archives?

July 9, 2012
AIDS and Imperialism: Karma and Colonial Crimes
Robert Dreyfuss

A new book shows that the HIV virus was triggered by wanton imperial depredations.

February 28, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: Tamara Chalabi's 'Late for Tea at the Deer Palace'
Robert Dreyfuss

Ahmed Chalabi’s daughter recounts the family’s saga and the ancien regime.

March 7, 2011
Obama's Bizarre Celebration of a Slave Republic's 'Compromises'
The Notion

The president said many objectionable things in selling his tax- cut plan, but his assertions about America's history of compromising was too much to stomach.

December 8, 2010
Pastors of Plenty: A Right-Wing Attack on Woody Guthrie, 'NYT'—and an Ecumenical Thanksgiving
Greg Mitchell

You can get anything you want at... or can you? Tim Graham thinks not.

November 23, 2010
Mark Twain Hits the Bestseller List: Was He First Political Blogger?
Greg Mitchell
November 20, 2010