Books and Ideas

The Church of Football The Church of Football

If the holiest day on the American calendar is Super Bowl Sunday, Vince Lombardi and Joe Namath were its early saints. So what does that make Pat Tillman?

Jan 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Lipsyte

Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski Remembrance: Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Polish writer who died January 23 chronicled coups and revolutions with eloquence and compassion; empathy was his most potent journalistic tool.

Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Magdalena Rittenhouse

A Pillar of American Justice A Pillar of American Justice

The legal philosophy of Louis Brandeis illuminates some of the compelling legal issues of our own times.

Jan 28, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Charles A. Miller

The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and J. Edgar Hoover The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and J. Edgar Hoover

Or was it so strange?

Jan 25, 2007 / Feature / Harrison E. Salisbury

Party Politics Party Politics

Dancing in the Streets is a history of outbreaks of collective joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.

Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

History Boy History Boy

The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.

Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift

Bombay Confidential Bombay Confidential

Vikram Chandra's epic crime novel Sacred Games is an infernal history of India in the last decade.

Jan 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley

After Tuning In to the Sunday Talk Shows to See What the Sabbath Gasbags Have to Say After Tuning In to the Sunday Talk Shows to See What the Sabbath Gasbags Have to Say

It's a long way to 2008.

Jan 24, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Savage Wars of Peace Savage Wars of Peace

Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.

Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

My Beef With Vegetarianism My Beef With Vegetarianism

The Bloodless Revolution explores four centuries of arguments for vegetarianism, from good health to fascist politics.

Jan 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

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