The Power Conundrum The Power Conundrum
After railing against non-violent intervention in the face of genocide, Samantha Power rethinks her stand.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
In the Lost Realm of the Real In the Lost Realm of the Real
Michael Dibdin's detective Zen series sounds a melancholy note for an old Italy rife with political enemies.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Searching for Traces Searching for Traces
There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
The Reminder-General The Reminder-General
Tony Judt fears the twenty-first century has spawned a culture hell- bent on forgetting the past.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
Dead Letters Dead Letters
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction--a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.
May 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Happily Never After Happily Never After
Gay and ready to tie the knot? Take some advice from a couple of heteros: marriage isn't all it's cracked up to be.
May 22, 2008 / Annabelle Gurwitch
Torturing Iron Man Torturing Iron Man
The Pentagon does a star turn in Iron Man, and the summer blockbuster turns the realities of the war in Afganistan upside down. Will anyone notice?
May 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nick Turse
Republican Bonding Republican Bonding
No daylight between these two characters.
May 21, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Taz Year Thirty Taz Year Thirty
Germany's leading left daily wins the fight to name a street after a leader of the 1968 student movement.
May 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Paul Hockenos
Radio Nation With Laura Flanders Radio Nation With Laura Flanders
Arthur C. Danto recalls Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Kim analyzes California's gay marriage ruling.
May 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Radio Nation