Tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims remain without homes. The
environment is devastated. People are disenfranchised. Financial
resources, desperate residents are told, are scarce.
The relentless reduction of taxes on the wealthy has created a profound inequality between the very rich and the bottom half of American society, affecting every aspect of daily life.
As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement?
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That’s why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
To World Cup aficionados, soccer is a beautiful game, but to ideologues in the United States and Europe, it’s a convenient political weapon against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Talk about spoilsports.
The crankily contrarian Neil Young has a knack for making music that reflects the times. Living With War, his blistering attack on the Bush presidency, marks the turning of a cultural tide.
Bolivian President Evo Morales is taking a risk in nationalizing his country’s natural gas fields–but it reflects growing discontent across Latin America over unfair deals with banks and private oil companies.
After years of vacillation, John Kerry has gone bold, finding his voice on Iraq and national security and thinking hard about running for President. But his future cannot be separated from his past.
There is no piecemeal solution to the gas price crisis. It’s a systemic sickness that goes to the root of the American way of life: big cars, big oil, big business and sprawl.
Soccer fans in Germany struck a blow against US corporate blandness by turning up their noses at the notion that Budweiser is the official beer of the games.
The crankily contrarian Neil Young has a knack for making music that reflects the times. Living With War, his blistering attack on the Bush presidency, marks the turning of a cultural tide.
Iran Awakening is the memoir of Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to hold Iran’s clerical regime accountable for its gross human rights violations.
Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn is a captivating memoir of the political and cultural dilemmas the author and activist encountered, and a compelling chronicle of Nigeria’s turbulent past.
In The Seduction of Culture in German History, Wolf Lepenies reflects on shifting manifestations of German philosophy and culture and considers the lessons they offer for Europe and the United States.
Two biographies of Thomas Eakins reveal the art world’s attitudes about the painter’s bodily obsessions: Was he a curious innocent, a brilliant anatomist or a dirty old man?
Two new books on the French Revolution examine Robespierre’s role in advocating terror as an instrument of government, raising compelling questions about state-sponsored terror in our own time.
In Stravinsky, the Second Exile, Stephen Walsh chronicles the composer’s late years, disentangling the realities of his life and work from the published assertions of a self-serving assistant.
Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française, published fifty-two years after she perished at Auschwitz, offers an unsparing critique of France under the German occupation and raises questions about the compromises she made.
Philip Roth’s Everyman is a contemporary morality play that explores the author’s obsessions with health and virility, ecstasy and betrayal, and the certainty and solitude of death.
New translations of novels by exiled authors Roberto Bolaño and Ismail Kadare explore the bloody crossroads where literature, politics and self-absorption converge.