Cellmates’ Reunion Cellmates’ Reunion
Desperate for medical care, an ailing granny pies the President and finds a soft bed in a country club prison. It's enough to make you go out and commit a crime.
Jun 1, 2006 / Editorial / Barbara Garson
Road to Perdition Road to Perdition
A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global...
May 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Morton Mintz
Ricky Williams Dreams of Canada Ricky Williams Dreams of Canada
Former Heisman trophy winner and ganja-smoking peacenik Ricky Williams is contemplating the sweet life in the Canadian Football League. Here's hoping he finds it.
May 26, 2006 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Sorel’s People Sorel’s People
In Literary Lives, caricaturist Edward Sorel tells all and then some about giants like Yeats, Proust, Hellman and Jung within the humble frame of a comic strip.
May 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Lingeman
On John McCain’s Willingness to Speak at Jerry Falwell’s University On John McCain’s Willingness to Speak at Jerry Falwell’s University
What it takes to make him change his mind.
May 25, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Keeping It Real Keeping It Real
In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.
May 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
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