Remembering Eugene McCarthy Remembering Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy's political life was full of contradictions: A conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, in the Vietnam era, he was transformed into the standard-bea...
Dec 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
The Outsider The Outsider
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay ...
Dec 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy
John Lennon Has a Legacy John Lennon Has a Legacy
'Hello, Goodbye' is now just goodbye.
Dec 8, 2005 / The Editors
Letter of the Law Letter of the Law
America's Constitution: A Biography examines America's obsession with the Constitution--its origins, evolution and interpretation.
Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jack Rakove
The Chosen People The Chosen People
The Jewish Century defies the conventional view of Jews as outsiders and traces their symbiotic relationship with Christians. A History of the Jews in the Modern World follows the ...
Nov 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Profane Illuminations Profane Illuminations
New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment n...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
The Two-Way Squeeze The Two-Way Squeeze
The quiet purposefulness that characterized Rosa Parks's actions bears eloquent witness to the power of her protest.
Oct 25, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Hidden History of Slavery in New York The Hidden History of Slavery in New York
Those who believe that slavery in America was strictly a "Southern thing" will discover an eye-opening historical record on display at the New-York Historical Society's current exh...
Oct 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adele Oltman
Over My Dead Body Over My Dead Body
New biographies of Benito Mussolini and Marilyn Monroe contemplate exploitation of the body--in life and after death.
Oct 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Mooallem
Another Country Another Country
Chronicling the final, devastating months of the Civil War, E.L. Doctorow's new novel, The March, reveals the author's complex love for an earlier version of America.
Oct 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vince Passaro