Shelf Life Shelf Life
Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez
The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History
Howard Zinn, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States.
Jan 28, 2010 / Dave Zirin
Vote of Confidence, Sort of Vote of Confidence, Sort of
Somewhere between cranky and skanky... Sentiments about Ben Bernanke.
Jan 27, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Love We Lost The Love We Lost
Like the terrorist, the sex offender is a new category of human being.
Jan 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
A Fine Romance: On Cristina Nehring A Fine Romance: On Cristina Nehring
If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?
Jan 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Markowitz
Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh on Haiti Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh on Haiti
These two spew theories bizarre and rococo.
Jan 20, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr. How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. –Martin Luther King, Jr. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomina...
Jan 18, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
The Professional The Professional
Like the Progressives, Obama seems to believe government can move beyond partisan politics.
Jan 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner