Books and Ideas

Labor Pains Labor Pains

Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

The Man Who Heard It All The Man Who Heard It All

Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music reviews the world of Western art music, expressing the magnificence and melancholy of its own age.

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths

The Palestinian Patient The Palestinian Patient

Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh

Emotional Truth Emotional Truth

In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we co...

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

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

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