Books and Ideas

Bush Is Asked Again If He Can Recall Any Mistakes Bush Is Asked Again If He Can Recall Any Mistakes

A contrite Commander in Chief will watch his words from here on.

Jun 1, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Cellmates’ Reunion Cellmates’ Reunion

Desperate for medical care, an ailing granny pies the President and finds a soft bed in a country club prison. It's enough to make you go out and commit a crime.

Jun 1, 2006 / Barbara Garson

Road to Perdition Road to Perdition

A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global...

May 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Morton Mintz

Ricky Williams Dreams of Canada Ricky Williams Dreams of Canada

Former Heisman trophy winner and ganja-smoking peacenik Ricky Williams is contemplating the sweet life in the Canadian Football League. Here's hoping he finds it.

May 26, 2006 / Feature / Dave Zirin

Sorel’s People Sorel’s People

In Literary Lives, caricaturist Edward Sorel tells all and then some about giants like Yeats, Proust, Hellman and Jung within the humble frame of a comic strip.

May 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Lingeman

On John McCain’s Willingness to Speak at Jerry Falwell’s University On John McCain’s Willingness to Speak at Jerry Falwell’s University

What it takes to make him change his mind.

May 25, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Keeping It Real Keeping It Real

In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.

May 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears

Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder

Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants,...

May 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Bradley

In Theory In Theory

In Frontiers of Justice, philosopher Martha Nussbaum explores our moral obligations to the disabled, to nonhuman animals and to the unresolved areas of international law.

May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray

Supersize Misha Supersize Misha

Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.

May 18, 2006 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman

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