The Light Stuff The Light Stuff
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
Apr 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
Back Talk: Nicholson Baker Back Talk: Nicholson Baker
In the debut of a new biweekly series, the author of Human Smoke discusses pacifism and World War II.
Apr 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Arms and the Right Arms and the Right
Two books dissect the contentious, confusing debate over gun control and the frequently misinterpreted Second Amendment.
Apr 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Leaving Cheyenne Mountain Leaving Cheyenne Mountain
Post-cold war America is looking a lot like the former Soviet Union.
Apr 17, 2008 / Feature / William J. Astore
Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a ‘Cop-out’ on the Tibet Issue Compared With Our ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ With China Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a ‘Cop-out’ on the Tibet Issue Compared With Our ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ With China
Just keep it coming.
Apr 16, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On
Five years ago this week, US troops stood by as mobs sacked Iraq's revered National Library and Archives. Despite little outside help, a cultural treasure soldiers on.
Apr 10, 2008 / Books & the Arts / R.H. Lossin
Man Out of Time Man Out of Time
In Hari Kunzru's captivating new novel My Revolutions, a former anti-Vietnam terrorist is dredged up after half a lifetime underground.
Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin
Where Now? Let’s Go! Where Now? Let’s Go!
The nonsensical funhouse of Donald Barthelme's fiction celebrates the cosmic joke of life and the pathos of grappling with it.
Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Filling Mark Penn’s Somewhat Mucky Shoes Filling Mark Penn’s Somewhat Mucky Shoes
Don't these people ever learn?
Apr 8, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin