The Improbability Pump The Improbability Pump
Why has natural selection always been the most contested part of evolutionary theory?
Apr 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jerry A. Coyne
Shelf Life Shelf Life
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater; Terese Svoboda's Weapons Grade; Bob Hicok's Words for Empty and Words for Full.
Apr 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
Icons of Oblivion Icons of Oblivion
Two new books explore the role of naturalists in the history of conservation movements.
Apr 22, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Kelman
The Hebrew Republic The Hebrew Republic
Ongoing conflict in the Middle East continually reinforces tribalism, religiosity and messianic Zionism.
Apr 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Kai Bird
Lies about Ike: Stephen Ambrose, Another Historian in Trouble Lies about Ike: Stephen Ambrose, Another Historian in Trouble
Stephen Ambrose said he spent hundreds of hours interviewing Ike. The Eisenhower library says he didn't.
Apr 21, 2010 / The Notion / Jon Wiener
Historian in Trouble: Orlando Figes and his Sock Puppet Historian in Trouble: Orlando Figes and his Sock Puppet
A historian admits he denounced rivals anonymously on the internet.
Apr 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Back Talk: Alice Echols Back Talk: Alice Echols
A conversation with the author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture about the birth of disco and its transformation of gay life.
Apr 16, 2010 / Back Talk Conversations / Christine Smallwood
To Curse and Fume To Curse and Fume
As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?
Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Gary Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State; Elizabeth Arnold's Effacement.
Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Gramaphoons Gramaphoons
A rock bottom, a bottom line, a body in extremis all make the poems of Graham Foust quaver and reel.
Apr 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko