The Kinsey Report The Kinsey Report
The publication of the Kinsey report means for the for the first time that frank talk about sex is no longer the sole domain of the church and psychoanalysts.
Mar 25, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Martin Gumpert
A Nameless Vocation: On Fanny Howe A Nameless Vocation: On Fanny Howe
In The Winter Sun, Fanny Howe proves to be a reluctant and rebellious memoirist.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba Antica e Moderna: The Poetry of Umberto Saba
The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Susan Stewart
There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
The collapse of journalism threatens democracy itself--that's why we need a government rescue.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
Lingo: What Child Is This? Lingo: What Child Is This?
This is Lingo, a new occasional column about language. Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?
Mar 17, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills
A half-century later, re-evaluating the works of C. Wright Mills, in The Politics of Truth.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Norman Birnbaum
A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean
In Norman Maclean's stories, tragedy comes garlanded in a prose style nearly unsurpassed for its bright flashes of remembrance, its whispers out of time.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors
Back Talk: Elaine Showalter Back Talk: Elaine Showalter
A conversation with the author of A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Sallow, Queer, Sagacious: Lincoln Through the Ages Sallow, Queer, Sagacious: Lincoln Through the Ages
A new anthology of essays captures the many faces of Lincoln over the decades.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple