Getting Away With Murder Getting Away With Murder
The brutal murder of a bishop and its violent aftermath exemplify post-civil war Guatemala's descent into chaos
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby
Jazz As a Way of Life Jazz As a Way of Life
The landscape riffs on what works where, Scrub brush dirt, scrub brush dirt, bougainvillea Pamplemousse-style on sandstone Declining to absorb
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis
The Passenger The Passenger
In a posthumously published memoir, Ryszard Kapuscinski looks back on his life as a pathbreaking literary journalist who covered the Third World during the cold war.
Sep 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice
Farm Aid Raises a Vision Farm Aid Raises a Vision
What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the Amer...
Sep 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Max Fraser
Grave Thoughts Grave Thoughts
Heddy Honigmann's documentary Forever visits the dead in Paris, but nobody grieves; James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma pits an evil Russell Crowe against a driven Christian Bale.
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Perishable Goods Perishable Goods
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The Earth’s Horizons: Panorama The Earth’s Horizons: Panorama
An observer limits her point of view to the line
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michèle Métail
The Uninvited Guest The Uninvited Guest
Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Roger Owen
The Madness of ‘King’ George The Madness of ‘King’ George
If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
Aug 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Simon Prentis
New Orleans Is Us New Orleans Is Us
If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.
Aug 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern