Books and Ideas

Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse

This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?

If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

‘Snake Eat Snake’ ‘Snake Eat Snake’

A few years ago, one of Lebanon's giddier periodicals, suitably titled Prestige, published as its cover story an interview with a Lebanese celebrity.

Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Walid Harb

‘Free-Range Rude’ ‘Free-Range Rude’

Early in Hannibal, Thomas Harris's hungrily anticipated sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, an Italian chief investigator on the trail of Dr.

Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Annie Gottlieb

The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike The Non-Silence of the Un-Lamblike

After the success of Infinite Jest in 1996, David Foster Wallace took a vacation from fiction and, perhaps, from fans' expectations with A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Agai...

Jul 1, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tom LeClair

Holocaust Creationism Holocaust Creationism

Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.

Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

Republic of Pain Republic of Pain

Quick, name a recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate accused of colluding in a program of mass murder. No, not Henry Kissinger--that's old news.

Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey

Cables Coming in From the Cold Cables Coming in From the Cold

Nearly four years ago, soon after the initial public release by the National Security Agency (NSA) of its long-secret Venona archive--decoded Soviet intelligence messages transmi...

Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir

Eat, Drink and Be Chary Eat, Drink and Be Chary

J.M. Coetzee's new novella, The Lives of Animals, must be some kind of first.

Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel

Indian Music, Sans Sitar Indian Music, Sans Sitar

I am an artless serf of Cupid. So are you and your mama--but not Vikram Seth.

Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

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