Moral Consequences of the Occupation Moral Consequences of the Occupation
It may be an old saw, but it remains true: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And this, ultimately, is why occupation is so pernicious. The occupier is at once...
Nov 22, 2006 / The Nation
Flying While Arab Flying While Arab
In my last post I wrote about a woman who was kicked off a Delta Airlines plane for feeding her baby. That could easily have been me; I fly often with my (breastfed) baby, and it ...
Nov 22, 2006 / The Nation
A Life of His Own A Life of His Own
Victoria Glendinning's biography of Leonard Woolf looks at a remarkable public intellectual whose life and work were eclipsed by his more famous spouse.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
God’s Willing Executioners God’s Willing Executioners
God's War explores the barbaric clash of Christianity and Islam, and what happens when people follow religious voices that no one else can hear.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The Man Who Loved Children The Man Who Loved Children
Adam Gopnik's Through the Children's Gate details the trials of a very smug and special class of parents raising children in post-9/11 New York.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen
Class Consciousness Class Consciousness
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford explores the contradictions of a social revolutionary possessed of an aristocrat's sense of the wrong and right kind of people.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Secrets Secrets
Your coffin was so small, Only I knew it was full of candlewick bedspreads, orange pekoe tea leaves smoking chimneys over wet peat;
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eavan Boland
The Collaborator The Collaborator
The Unfree French looks at the German occupation of Vichy; Bad Faith is a grim biography of a French collaborator.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Laura Kipnis's The Female Thing takes women to task for perpetuating the notion that they're vulnerable.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Getting Even Getting Even
Roald Dahl's Collected Stories are best enjoyed by adult readers who take their humor black.
Nov 22, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Amidon