The Strange Silence of Günter Grass The Strange Silence of Günter Grass
By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defec...
Aug 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Norman Birnbaum
A Letter from 18 Writers A Letter from 18 Writers
Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison and other luminaries call to resist Israel's undeclared political aim: the liquidation of the Palestinian state.
Aug 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
The Essential Terrorist The Essential Terrorist
With the "war on terror" now official nomenclature, the problematic conflating of ethnic, religious and "terrorist" identities is now a matter of policy as well as media distortion...
Aug 15, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said
Fierce Convictions Fierce Convictions
Every other week, in the pages of this magazine, Katha Pollitt collects her thoughts in her column, "Subject to Debate." To say that Pollitt's column is a hotbed of feminist po...
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Goldstein
The Magic Bus The Magic Bus
Reviews of Little Miss Sunshine, Quinceañera, My Country, My Country, The Pusher Trilogy and The Bridesmaid.
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Prison Notebooks The Prison Notebooks
Nikolai Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques is more than a cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a political path still not taken.
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
Journals of the Purge Years Journals of the Purge Years
Revolution on My Mind is a new analysis of personal diaries written in the shadow of Stalin.
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Fitzpatrick
Same Old Song Same Old Song
American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.
Aug 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Tichenor
With Feathers With Feathers
In Lunacy, order and liberty wriggle with equal parts Poe and Sade. In Scoop, recycled sleuthing gags masquerade as timely satire.
Jul 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Global Village The Global Village
What does it mean to be from a place? In Monica Ali's new novel, Alentejo Blue, the collision of locals, expatriates and tourists shatters any simple answers to the question.
Jul 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nell Freudenberger