Books and Ideas

Presidential Eating Preferences Presidential Eating Preferences

Everyone knows what his predecessors liked for dinner. But there's one special dish we'd really like to serve George W. Bush.

Aug 24, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Inside the Alleged Mind of Bill O’Reilly Inside the Alleged Mind of Bill O’Reilly

Looking for a blast of hot air? Two intrepid literary critics venture deep into the steaming, muddy jungles of the Fox News pundit's award-losing prose.

Aug 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer

The Strange Silence of Günter Grass The Strange Silence of Günter Grass

By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defec...

Aug 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Norman Birnbaum

The Prison Notebooks The Prison Notebooks

Nikolai Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques is more than a cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a political path still not taken.

Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny

Journals of the Purge Years Journals of the Purge Years

Revolution on My Mind is a new analysis of personal diaries written in the shadow of Stalin.

Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Fitzpatrick

Same Old Song Same Old Song

American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.

Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Tichenor

‘Mushroom Cloud’ Rice, The Icy Spinmeister, Tries Again ‘Mushroom Cloud’ Rice, The Icy Spinmeister, Tries Again

Condi takes her "birth pangs" mantra on the road.

Aug 10, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Caltech Physicists Successfully Split the Bill Caltech Physicists Successfully Split the Bill

Scientists emerge exhausted but visibly excited Friday from a Pasadena Cheesecake Factory.

Aug 6, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation

Bush Postpones 2008 Election Bush Postpones 2008 Election

In a news brief from the future, Bush continues to do whatever it takes to protect us from terror.

Jul 31, 2006 / Editorial / Stephen Gillers

War-Torn Mideast Seeks Solace In Religion War-Torn Mideast Seeks Solace In Religion

Who knew?

Jul 30, 2006 / From The Onion / The Nation

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