Obama From the Agora Obama From the Agora
Assessing Barack Obama's mythic destiny: will he become more Athenian than Spartan?
Jul 30, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
1984: The Left, The Democrats and the Future 1984: The Left, The Democrats and the Future
Democrats seek the center--and lose their moorings.
Jul 29, 2008 / Feature / Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Kopkind
Remembering Eliot Asinof Remembering Eliot Asinof
Eliot Asinof, blacklisted author of Eight Men Out, created a lifetime of work celebrating rebels and victims of injustice.
Jun 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Kisseloff
City of Fear City of Fear
A new book explores the historical ties between African-American and Japanese-American communities in Los Angeles.
Jun 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
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
Sweet Martin’s Badass Song Sweet Martin’s Badass Song
Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.
May 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul
Dreaming Obama in North Carolina Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
Apr 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
Back Talk: Nicholson Baker Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
Apr 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On
Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
Apr 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / R.H. Lossin
Suffragist City Suffragist City
Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.
Apr 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mary Beth Norton