Stolen Kisses: Iran’s Sexual Revolutions Stolen Kisses: Iran’s Sexual Revolutions
Is sexual promiscuity in Iran a sign of political ferment or of an unmoored generation's dissipated energies?
Nov 25, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Laura Secor
Conversations With Chavez and Castro Conversations With Chavez and Castro
Conversations with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantánamo and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on human rights in his country and the next US administration.
Alone Among the Ghosts: Roberto Bolano’s ‘2666’ Alone Among the Ghosts: Roberto Bolano’s ‘2666’
Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.
Nov 19, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Marcela Valdes
Operation Enduring Disaster Operation Enduring Disaster
Given a severe global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama, the possibility of a serious discussion about a US exit strategy from the Afghan disaster hovers on the hori...
Out of Africa: The Traps of Safari Journalism Out of Africa: The Traps of Safari Journalism
Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.
Nov 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas
City of Shards: The Novels of Elias Khoury City of Shards: The Novels of Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury and the literature of witness.
Nov 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama
How can a President Obama improve US relations with Russia if some of his closest advisors are unrepentant hawks from the cold war era?
Nov 12, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Nairobi: Euphoria and Questions Nairobi: Euphoria and Questions
A nation riven by differences marvels at his message of civility and inclusion. Yet there is some worry about an Obama administration's policies on Africa.
Nov 5, 2008 / Karen Rothmyer
Paris: ‘America is Back’ Paris: ‘America is Back’
People here are looking in wonderment at the culture that produced Obama and at the people who put him in the White House. In short, they're looking at us.
Nov 5, 2008 / Jordan Stancil
London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over London: A Sense that the Nightmare is Over
When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.
Nov 5, 2008 / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan