Humboldt’s Gift Humboldt’s Gift
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
Mission Impossible Mission Impossible
Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain's colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Maya Jasanoff
Inevitable Revolutions Inevitable Revolutions
In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gyan Prakash
Katrina vs. Colbert Katrina vs. Colbert
Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Colbert Report to debate the host on the question of truthiness and much more.
Apr 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen Colbert
Pakistan: The Intersection Pakistan: The Intersection
VideoNation travels to Pakistan to assess the nation's future through the eyes of students at the progressive National College of Arts and the extremist-dominated Punjab University...
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Sam Graham-Felsen, Ali Sethi, and James Jacoby
Undercover of the Night Undercover of the Night
Reviews of the films Black Book and Zodiac.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Semiwarriors The Semiwarriors
By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
Lying in the Middle of the Field Lying in the Middle of the Field
Tidewater, Oregon The tractor has left rows in the grass, somewhat like rows of cut cane. Louisiana, I take you everywhere. The field itself is a giant row bet...
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Martha Serpas
Bolaño in Mexico Bolaño in Mexico
As a young writer in the 1970s, Roberto Bolaño was expected to choose between two rival factions of Mexican poets. He chose both.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
Body Language Body Language
A new "ethnic correctness" is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.
Mar 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Lam