Inside Man Inside Man
In America at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama critiques the neoconservative movement and its disastrous defense of the Iraq War. But he remains fully committed to the unchecked us...
Apr 6, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Perry Anderson
Strangers in the Land Strangers in the Land
Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.
Mar 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Brother From Another Planet Brother From Another Planet
If you missed the 1995 CUNY "Question of Identity" conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the "remarkable" essay on the same subject in Diacritics or--even wo...
Mar 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Experimental Art Experimental Art
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Foer
Crowds and Power Crowds and Power
In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social ...
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Will Greenspan Tell the Truth? Will Greenspan Tell the Truth?
A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father's birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would ...
Mar 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Life Is Sweet Life Is Sweet
Federico Fellini: His Life And Work effaces nearly everything written about the great Italian director, offering a distinct critical analysis and an absorbing account of his privat...
Mar 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cowie
Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom
In his newest novel The Last Friend, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws from his experiences as a writer and activist under Morocco's repressive monarchy.
Mar 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Bad Will Hunting Bad Will Hunting
Two new books on Shakespeare examine his shadowy life, his times and the origins of his imagination. A third explores whether the Bard of Avon was, in fact, Edward de Vere.
Feb 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift
Compromising Positions Compromising Positions
Richard Schickel's biography of Elia Kazan is a laudatory postscript to a life marked by social turmoil, political strife and artistic intensity.
Feb 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich