Across the Great Divide
Akiva Gottlieb : US Wars & Military Action
Against the background of the surge, David Finkel twists the concept of wartime good into a cosmic joke.
2009
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Missed Chances
Jochen Hellbeck : Russia
Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.
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The First Counter-revolutionary
Corey Robin : Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
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Cornucopia Blues
Brent Cunningham : Food & Nutrition
How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?
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Vice
Stephen Holmes : Dick Cheney
Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dimiter Kenarov : Balkans
Georgi Stoev plundered his past in the Bulgarian mob to write a series of popular pulp novels. The mob found them good enough for him to die for.
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Green Acres
Greg Grandin : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.
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There Will Always Be Blood
Lorna Scott Fox : Books
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.
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Bad Paper
John Palattella : Conservatives & The American Right
Does the author of They Knew They Were Right really think he has done nothing wrong?
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Crash Landings
Bernard Avishai : Economics
Reviewing Paul Krugman's visionary book The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.
2008
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In Congo Square
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro : New Orleans
Two new books uncover the colonial origins and musical roots of New Orleans.
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Stewartsville
Christine Smallwood : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
What possessed the fierce individualist George R. Stewart to compile a history of place-naming in the United States?
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Out of Africa
Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.
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Studs
Victor Navasky : Nation History
Remembering our national griot, the bearer of stories of people, ordinary and extraordinary.
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Studs Terkel: Vigilant Optimist
Studs Terkel always stood for the radical idea of the long memory. Telling the stories of our times, he remained to the end a vigilant optimist about civil rights and social progress.
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Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose
Dennis Kucinich : Nation History
He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.
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