Books and Ideas

The Virtual Realist The Virtual Realist

Philip K. Dick has become the most influential and prophetic of late-twentieth-century science fiction writers.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Clowns With Kalashnikovs Clowns With Kalashnikovs

In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François...

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Miller

The Imaginary Jew The Imaginary Jew

Two new novels, by Michael Chabon and Nathan Englander, recharge the modern Jewish experience with a sense of the exotic.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

The New Face of Warfare The New Face of Warfare

Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas

The Wharton School The Wharton School

A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple

Among the Disbelievers Among the Disbelievers

In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace Him.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

The Brown Decades The Brown Decades

In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Cohen

The Dread Zone The Dread Zone

John Leonard, noted critic and former literary editor of The Nation, died Wednesay at 69. This review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man was one of his last pieces published in the magaz...

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard

At a Loss for Words At a Loss for Words

Ralph Ellison was eager to be counted in any political cause--except those surrounding race.

May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Anderson

On Three Out of the Ten Republican Presidential Candidates Stating That They Don’t Believe in Evolution On Three Out of the Ten Republican Presidential Candidates Stating That They Don’t Believe in Evolution

The Big Bang is something else entirely.

May 10, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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