Books & the Arts

Bush’s Sitcom Nominee Bush’s Sitcom Nominee

Warren Bell honed his reputation writing sitcoms and lobbing politically incorrect bombs for National Review Online. Now he's Bush's nominee for the Corporation for Public Broadcas...

Sep 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Celia Viggo Wexler

ABC 9/11 Docudrama’s Right-Wing Roots ABC 9/11 Docudrama’s Right-Wing Roots

How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.

Sep 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Max Blumenthal

Big in Japan Big in Japan

Reviews of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Hollywoodland and This Film Is Not Yet Rated.

Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Unsentimental Education Unsentimental Education

A new memoir by Robert Hughes reveals the idiosyncratic sensibility of a celebrated art critic.

Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

Londonistan Calling Londonistan Calling

Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.

Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge

Ottoman Ghosts Ottoman Ghosts

Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

Too Late for Empire Too Late for Empire

Thirty years after Watergate, we again face a constitutional crisis at home and a misconceived war abroad. The United States will remain a helpless giant until we finally learn tha...

Sep 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Tavis Smiley’s Covenant Tavis Smiley’s Covenant

Journalist, activist, philanthropist and self-promoter, Tavis Smiley has the political clout and the ability to energize and educate the black community in the best tradition of Ma...

Sep 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Amy Alexander

Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation

Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.

Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami

The Chinese Evolution The Chinese Evolution

Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.

Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom

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