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
The Chinese Evolution The Chinese Evolution
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Let’s Dance Let’s Dance
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explo...
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Writers From the Other Asia Writers From the Other Asia
Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark left by its North-South division.
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Feffer