The Lost Steps The Lost Steps
American policy-makers may be divided into two schools of thought on the Arab-Israeli conflict: the evenhanded and the Israel-first.
Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Avi Shlaim
Holy Water Holy Water
Walden Pond is America's environmental holy land, the naturalist's sacred site and Concord's local swimming pool.
Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay
Latin America’s Longest War Latin America’s Longest War
In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about fo...
Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby
Laughter in the Dark Laughter in the Dark
Stalin has had a rough time at the hands of Russian novelists in recent years.
Jul 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Boris Fishman
Living to Tell the Tale Living to Tell the Tale
Former Presidents have a difficult, even awkward, role. They cope in different ways, but if the past half-century is any guide, we can be certain of one thing: They write their m...
Jul 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
The Foregone Convention The Foregone Convention
George McGovern carried the day, but the passion was provided by Ted Kennedy.
Jul 13, 2004 / Feature / Robert Sherrill
Requiem for a Dream Requiem for a Dream
In a cluster of beach bungalows in Ghana in December 2000, my wife and I encountered the Peace Corps dream.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
It's the first three chapters of Yuri Olesha's Envy that really bite, that really get across the impotent sting of the emotion.
Jul 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Jahr
The Anti-Warrior The Anti-Warrior
Christianity in this country has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics and--courtesy of Mel Gibson--a brutally sadistic version of religious ...
Jun 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Dan Wakefield
The Searcher The Searcher
In 1965, nearly forty years before the publication of Where I Was From, her most recent and most sustained meditation on her native state of California, Joan Didion wrote “John Way...
Jun 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hilton Als