Woodward Enters–Not Breaks–the Story Woodward Enters–Not Breaks–the Story
This week, Bob Woodward didn't break a story. He entered the story. On Wednesday, The Washington Post, Woodward's home base, disclosed that two days ...
Nov 18, 2005 / David Corn
Letters Letters
THE MAORI STILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
Somerville, Mass.
Nov 17, 2005 / Arthur C. Danto, Our Readers, Anatol Lieven, and Russell Jacoby
Succès de Scandale Succès de Scandale
American readers have long felt guilty about loving Lolita. As Vladimir Nabokov's nymphet heroine turns 50, Lila Azam Zanganeh traces the impact of a novel that has become both an ...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lila Azam Zanganeh
The Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel
Jerome Charyn's Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel examines the life the revolutionary idealist murdered by Stalin in 1940 and explodes the literary myths that hav...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel
The Dying Animal The Dying Animal
Gabriel García Márquez's new novella begins as an autobiography, but the passion-filled story of an old man, mad with love and clinging to life, weaves Marquez's othe...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
Mystic River Mystic River
Amartya Sen's latest collection of essays explores the rich flow of various peoples in and out of India and how they shaped the politics and spirituality of the nation today.
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali
All About My Mother All About My Mother
The Caribbean island of Vieques is a fitting setting for Captain of the Sleepers, Cuban novelist Mayra Montero's engrossing story premised on violations of the dead.
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Kate Levin
Profane Illuminations Profane Illuminations
New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment n...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
Unholy Wars Unholy Wars
The conduct of the war in Iraq has embarrassed us, lowered us, endangered us and betrayed our best ideals. The debasement of our soldiers and the lawlessness of our leaders is shoc...
Nov 17, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Lies That Bind The Lies That Bind
Lack of candor is not surprising from Bush or Ahmad Chalabi, but why does the New York Times continue to struggle with the truth about Judith Miller? The Gray Lady might solve the ...
Nov 17, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman