Late-Night Comics Bid Farewell to Christine O’Donnell Late-Night Comics Bid Farewell to Christine O’Donnell
But not for long.
Nov 11, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
America’s Knowledge Deficit America’s Knowledge Deficit
We have increasingly substituted opinion and prejudice for science and reason.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin R. Barber
The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash The View From the Top Table: On Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry The Wild Desire to Leave: On Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.
Nov 10, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Nathans
Be Not Concerned That Two Conservative Groups Spent $50 Million on This Election Be Not Concerned That Two Conservative Groups Spent $50 Million on This Election
The Supreme Court said it's okay!
Nov 4, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Texts for Nothing? On Tom McCarthy Texts for Nothing? On Tom McCarthy
With C, Tom McCarthy asks us to see fiction as a crafty and adventurous playmate unafraid of its mortality.
Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett Fame is a Bee: On Dick Cavett
A talk-show like Dick Cavett's, intelligent but not intellectual, offered television a new twist.
Nov 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Heather Hendershot
The Rosenberg Variations The Rosenberg Variations
A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still mat...
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde
Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / David Wallace-Wells
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding's Mother Country
Oct 27, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella