In Palestine, a Dream Deferred In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
Two new books explore fundamental Palestinian and Israeli concerns: The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi considers the Palestinians’ failure to achieve sovereignty, and One Country by A...
Nov 30, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bashir Abu-Manneh
An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott An Analysis of the War by the Newly Rehabilitated Trent Lott
Now here's a guy who knows whereof he speaks.
Nov 30, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Life of His Own A Life of His Own
Victoria Glendinning's biography of Leonard Woolf looks at a remarkable public intellectual whose life and work were eclipsed by his more famous spouse.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
God’s Willing Executioners God’s Willing Executioners
God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The Man Who Loved Children The Man Who Loved Children
Adam Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate details the trials of a very smug and special class of parents raising children in post-9/11 New York.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Class Consciousness Class Consciousness
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford explores the contradictions of a social revolutionary possessed of an aristocrat's sense of the wrong and right kind of people.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
The Collaborator The Collaborator
The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Laura Kipnis's The Female Thing takes women to task for perpetuating the notion that they're vulnerable.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Getting Even Getting Even
Roald Dahl's Collected Stories are best enjoyed by adult readers who take their humor black.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Amidon
Not Dark Yet Not Dark Yet
Gore Vidal's Point to Point Navigation is a brave and continuous affirmation of life and an assurance that though the Republic has been betrayed, we are not to give up hope.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood