Underworlds Underworlds
Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Henry Farrell
Terra Incognita Terra Incognita
A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
Beyond the Veil Beyond the Veil
A new book examines headscarf hysteria and the politics of identity in contemporary France.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Deal Breakers Deal Breakers
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Studs’s People Studs’s People
For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Harry Maurer
Moyers & FDR Moyers & FDR
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers
Song of the Andoumboulou: 77 Song of the Andoumboulou: 77
A new name remembering
thirteen dead was on the box.
One of seven sets of twins to
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Mackey
War Novelist War Novelist
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer.
Rinehart and Company. $4.
Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert
The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest
Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.
Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Evan Cornog
Roscoe Mitchell’s Wolf Tones Roscoe Mitchell’s Wolf Tones
The subtle sounds of this saxophonist defy definition.
Nov 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton