Non-fiction

Grand Flattery: The Yale Grand Strategy Seminar Grand Flattery: The Yale Grand Strategy Seminar

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

May 9, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney and Stephen Wertheim

An Enduring Condition: On War Time

An Enduring Condition: On War Time An Enduring Condition: On War Time

For Mary Dudziak, we are now experiencing a time of permanent war, one that does not bother everyday Americans.

May 9, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter Maass

In Annawadi: On Katherine Boo

In Annawadi: On Katherine Boo In Annawadi: On Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a superb, empathic account of life in a Mumbai undercity.

Apr 17, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami

A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller

A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller A Double Inheritance: On Margaret Fuller

A nineteenth-century feminist's exceptional life.

Apr 3, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

The Not Yet Richer, Still Struggling for Economic Equality, Sex The Not Yet Richer, Still Struggling for Economic Equality, Sex

A new book takes exciting and historic trends a step too far.

Mar 23, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert

Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.

Mar 21, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

Berlusconiland Berlusconiland

Has Silvio Berlusconi’s corruption deprived Italians of their liberty?

Feb 15, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Yascha Mounk

The Flesh Underneath: On ‘Every Twelve Seconds’ The Flesh Underneath: On ‘Every Twelve Seconds’

Timothy Pachirat’s gut-wrenching account of slaughterhouse work.

Feb 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Ted Conover

Jonathan Blitzer: El País’s Journey to the Mainstream

Jonathan Blitzer: El País’s Journey to the Mainstream Jonathan Blitzer: El País’s Journey to the Mainstream

How did a newspaper that once represented a progressive alternative to the status quo ultimately come to be firmly identified with the state itself?

Feb 2, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Francis Reynolds

The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz

There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.

Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Pablo Eisenberg

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