Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Polish writer who died January 23 chronicled coups and revolutions with eloquence and compassion; empathy was his most potent journalistic tool.
Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Magdalena Rittenhouse
A Pillar of American Justice A Pillar of American Justice
The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.
Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles A. Miller
Party Politics Party Politics
Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
History Boy History Boy
The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Bombay Confidential Bombay Confidential
Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.
Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
The Illogic of Empire The Illogic of Empire
Iraq is America's colonial war. Arguments for maintaining colonial rule in India are almost identical to the justifications offered for the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq...
Jan 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge
Savage Wars of Peace Savage Wars of Peace
Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
The President and the Prophet The President and the Prophet
The Radical and the Republican traces the antislavery politics of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
My Beef With Vegetarianism My Beef With Vegetarianism
The Bloodless Revolution explores four centuries of arguments for vegetarianism, from good health to fascist politics.
Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Framing Framing
for Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
What you won't see today:
juniper's tough skein.
Jan 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout