Books & the Arts

Another Country Another Country

A review of two recent memoirs of Iran.

Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani

The X-Files The X-Files

An Obituary.

Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Anders Stephanson

About a Boy About a Boy

Jonathan Safran Foer, wunderkind.

Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Tangled Up in Bob

Tangled Up in Bob Tangled Up in Bob

In or around 1965, human nature changed.

Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe

Bin Laden’s Nuclear Connection Bin Laden’s Nuclear Connection

If America had agreed to a nuclear-free world, we wouldn't face threats today.

Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird

Gangs of Shanghai Gangs of Shanghai

The scene is Shanghai, or Busby Berkeley's dream of it: a Chinese city of the 1930s, teeming on the outskirts with rickety tenement compounds, bustling in its business district...

Mar 31, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

All the World Is Green All the World Is Green

"Social Security is the soft underbelly," says right-wing activist Stephen Moore.

Mar 31, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Mike Wallace

Quartet for the End of Time Quartet for the End of Time

When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist's first major-label record, for Columbia.

Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton

Dreams and Delusions Dreams and Delusions

California inspires people to think big, and to write big books. Take, for example, Kevin Starr.

Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

The Imagination of Disaster The Imagination of Disaster

Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he's unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window.

Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel

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