Dark Rooms Dark Rooms
Susie Linfield | The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.
Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield
Pointe Work Pointe Work
Nureyev: The Life brings new focus to an iconic figure of modern ballet.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Many Exits Many Exits
Philip Roth's Exit Ghost considers whether we're astonished by death or the life that precedes it.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Matt Weiland
The Nijinsky of Ambivalence The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
Love by a Thousand Cuts Love by a Thousand Cuts
Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
A Colder War A Colder War
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
Underworlds Underworlds
Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Henry Farrell
Terra Incognita Terra Incognita
A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr
Beyond the Veil Beyond the Veil
A new book examines headscarf hysteria and the politics of identity in contemporary France.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Deal Breakers Deal Breakers
Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.
Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein