The Necessary Miracle The Necessary Miracle
The following speech was delivered this spring at Mark Twain's house in Hartford.
Apr 12, 2007 / Feature / Kurt Vonnegut
Humboldt’s Gift Humboldt’s Gift
The comic novel Measuring the World re-imagines the lives of two of the nineteenth century's greatest scientists.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Mark M. Anderson
Mission Impossible Mission Impossible
Three Empires on the Nile, a lively retelling of Britain's colonial exploits in Africa, conjures up images of wild-eyed Arabs waging jihad in the desert.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Maya Jasanoff
Inevitable Revolutions Inevitable Revolutions
In William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India is recast as a cross-border friendship gone sour.
Apr 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gyan Prakash
Hiss in History Hiss in History
Although many historians have condemned Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, the facts of his story remain obscure.
Apr 12, 2007 / Editorial / Victor Navasky
On John McCain’s Much-Ridiculed Attempt to Use His Shorja Market Visit as Proof That Baghdad Is Being Pacified On John McCain’s Much-Ridiculed Attempt to Use His Shorja Market Visit as Proof That Baghdad Is Being Pacified
McCain bought himself trouble in his visit to Baghdad.
Apr 12, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Katrina vs. Colbert Katrina vs. Colbert
Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Colbert Report to debate the host on the question of truthiness and much more.
Apr 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen Colbert
The Semiwarriors The Semiwarriors
By creating an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, Presidents have expanded their powers and hidden their actions from the public eye.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
Bolaño in Mexico Bolaño in Mexico
As a young writer in the 1970s, Roberto Bolaño was expected to choose between two rival factions of Mexican poets. He chose both.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
On the News That Mitt Romney Finished First Among Republicans in First-Quarter Fundraising On the News That Mitt Romney Finished First Among Republicans in First-Quarter Fundraising
As a candidate, Mitt is now legit.
Apr 5, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin