The Ice Forge The Ice Forge
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
Feb 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jochen Hellbeck
An Unconventional Convention An Unconventional Convention
On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects....
Feb 12, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Oswald Garrison Villard
Green Days Green Days
The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.
Feb 7, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anson Rabinbach
Wall Street’s Crisis Wall Street’s Crisis
Wall Street crashes; thousands of people are wiped out, but the worst is yet to come.
Jan 29, 2008 / Editorial / The Editors
Rambling Man Rambling Man
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
‘The Mississippi Challenge’ ‘The Mississippi Challenge’
LBJ responds to national anger and sends a voting rights bill to Congress. It's a good one, but long overdue.
Jan 22, 2008 / Feature / George Slaff
A Conversation with Taylor Branch A Conversation with Taylor Branch
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
Jan 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Wallace
Little Ships of Horror Little Ships of Horror
Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Leslie Brown
Battle Pieces Battle Pieces
In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.
Jan 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
United We Scam United We Scam
Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.
Jan 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser