Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder
Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants,...
May 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Bradley
In Theory In Theory
In Frontiers of Justice, philosopher Martha Nussbaum explores our moral obligations to the disabled, to nonhuman animals and to the unresolved areas of international law.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray
Wind From the Mideast Wind From the Mideast
"The Road to Damascus" explores the strange, the beautiful and the uncanny in Syrian cinema.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Supersize Misha Supersize Misha
Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Dead Souls Dead Souls
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, written during the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution, is a marvel of storytelling and testament to the power of the word.
May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Carmen Boullosa
Reassurance on Phone Call Records… Reassurance on Phone Call Records…
Don't worry. Just trust them.
May 18, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Anthems of Outrage Anthems of Outrage
The crankily contrarian Neil Young has a knack for making music that reflects the times. Living With War, his blistering attack on the Bush presidency, marks the turning of a cultu...
May 12, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Kevin McCarthy
Woman Warrior Woman Warrior
Iran Awakening is the memoir of Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to hold Iran's clerical regime accountable for its gross human rights violation...
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan
Zones of Disengagement Zones of Disengagement
In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini encapsulates the paradoxes that dominate discussion of the English cultural landscape.
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Vinen
The Book of Daniels The Book of Daniels
Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island has at last landed on American shores, along with Pierre Mérot's Mammals.
May 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood