The Illusionist The Illusionist
Alexander Stille's The Sack of Rome explores how Silvio Berlusconi subverted Italy's government, history and culture.
Sep 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Tobias Jones
China’s Neoliberal Dynasty China’s Neoliberal Dynasty
As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
Sep 14, 2006 / Feature / Peter Kwong
Congo Journey Congo Journey
It was the strangest journey of my life, and it will always be. I was looking for fictional characters I had invented, in a country I had never visited.
Sep 14, 2006 / Feature / John le Carré
Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary
As Taliban fighters clash with thinly spread NATO forces across Afghanistan and "suicide cell" claims lives daily in Kabul, hope is fading that the country can avoid descending int...
Sep 11, 2006 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Unsentimental Education Unsentimental Education
A new memoir by Robert Hughes reveals the idiosyncratic sensibility of a celebrated art critic.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens
Londonistan Calling Londonistan Calling
Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge
Ottoman Ghosts Ottoman Ghosts
Caroline Finkel's new book, Osman's Dream, explores the rise and calamitous fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Sep 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
In Mexico, a Class War Looms In Mexico, a Class War Looms
The confirmation of Felipe Calderón's electoral victory signals the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's three-year struggle for the presidency and the beginn...
High on Opium, Not Democracy High on Opium, Not Democracy
In Bush-liberated Afghanistan, billions in drug profits are financing the Taliban, proving the President is better at starting wars than winning them.
Sep 6, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer
Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami