Books and Ideas

Love’s Body Love’s Body

Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer renowned for his capacity to create beautifully controlled surfaces and to beautifully evoke the roiling emotions beneath them.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Claire Messud

Crouching Tiger Crouching Tiger

Being Stanley Crouch is about as bruising a vocation as there is in what passes for--or remains of--polite literary society.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

The Other 1905 Revolution The Other 1905 Revolution

Albert Einstein's banner year.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Foer

At a newsstand, a vendor reads an issue of Sports Illustrated magazine as he waits for customers, New York, New York, August 1954.

Protest and Survive Protest and Survive

Thoughts on the critical role of the journal of dissent in America.

Apr 28, 2005 / Feature / Victor Navasky

Bellow’s Lonely Planet Bellow’s Lonely Planet

The world Saul Bellow made.

Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lee Siegel

Patrimony Patrimony

Kevin Young updates the Harlem Renaissance for the hip-hop generation.

Apr 21, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The ‘Ick’ Factor: Villains, Veils and Vision The ‘Ick’ Factor: Villains, Veils and Vision

While Michael Jackson's 2005 trial was appalling, it was not the stuff of ordinary tabloid catharsis; there was not an unsullied soul within fifty miles of the courthouse.

Apr 21, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The New Environment of Foreign Aid The New Environment of Foreign Aid

Foreign aid is not dead but it seemed so last month, as the International Development Conference (a meeting of foreign aid experts that has been held in fifteen of the last twenty ...

Apr 14, 2005 / Feature / Richard Critchfield

Before the Law Before the Law

A new book on Isaeli courts in the West Bank and Gaza.

Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon

Another Country Another Country

A review of two recent memoirs of Iran.

Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani

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