The Plot Against America The Plot Against America
John Updike's Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book's Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of pa...
Jun 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Scenes From a Marriage Scenes From a Marriage
Conventional wisdom suggests Israelis and Palestinians are bitter enemies: two sides mired in a century-long conflict marked by violence, hatred and an unbounded reservoir of bru...
Jun 17, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Letter From Israel Letter From Israel
It's a humid Mediterranean morning in late October.
Dec 24, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Shainin
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald--a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002--all but a fraction of his own writing mold...
Feb 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin
Death on the Installment Plan Death on the Installment Plan
In Terre Haute, the effects of one execution are only the beginning.
Jul 12, 2001 / Feature / Jonathan Shainin