Books and Ideas

Historians Target Iraq War Historians Target Iraq War

Historians and activists join forces in Texas this weekend to explore how the tools of historical analysis can bolster the case for an immediate end to the war in Iraq.

Feb 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jim O’Brien

In a Lonely Place In a Lonely Place

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's legacy as both an admirable revolutionary and a profound thinker is brought to life in Vivian Gornick's The Solitude of Self.

Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum

The Color of Money The Color of Money

Four new books explore the politics, culture and racial awareness of the hip-hop generation.

Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate

A Letter to the American Left A Letter to the American Left

The American left is in a semi-comatose state, thanks to the striking ideological transformation wrought by its neoconservative battalions.

Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Facts The Facts

In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.

Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

The Race to War The Race to War

Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.

Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Levering Lewis

Heidegger Made Kosher Heidegger Made Kosher

Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin

Truth, Fiction and Frey Truth, Fiction and Frey

James Frey's faux memoir exposes corporate publishing as an industry so starved for bestsellers that it is unable to protect itself from fraud.

Jan 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Flamm

The Master of Modernismo The Master of Modernismo

Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, all but unknown in English-speaking countries, had a global impact on literature, ushering Spanish poetry into the modern era.

Jan 25, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Roberto González Echevarría

Music for the End of Time Music for the End of Time

A new biography examines the life and work of composer and theorist Olivier Messiaen, who moved French music out of the cafes and back to the cathedrals.

Jan 25, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff

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