Books & the Arts

Invisible Republic Invisible Republic

Siddhartha Deb's second novel follows an Indian journalist on an elusive search for meaning.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Shashi Tharoor

Hail Mary Hail Mary

A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Look at Me Look at Me

Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel

Kindred Spirits Kindred Spirits

Michael Cunningham delivers a historical/noir/sci-fi novel haunted by 9/11 and Walt Whitman.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Maria Margaronis

Revolutionary Suicide Revolutionary Suicide

Eritrea betrayed.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

An Acquired Taste An Acquired Taste

The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley

Zippie World! Zippie World!

A look at Thomas Friedman's flattened world.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba

Cosmopolis Cosmopolis

Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adam LeBor

Twist and Shout Twist and Shout

What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / James M. McPherson

Unintended Consequences Unintended Consequences

The story of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun illustrates the value of a truly independent judiciary.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett

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