Books and Ideas

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

LOVECRAFT: Tales

Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Justin Taylor

The Man Who Wasn’t There The Man Who Wasn’t There

Christopher Marlowe's life was short, sharp and irresistible.

Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Swift

The Motorcycle Gangs

The Motorcycle Gangs The Motorcycle Gangs

A portrait of an outsider underground.

Mar 2, 2005 / Feature / Hunter S. Thompson

Galbraith: An Appreciation Galbraith: An Appreciation

John Kenneth Galbraith was famous long ago as America's most widely read economist, until his expansive understanding of economic liberalism was pushed aside by political event...

Feb 24, 2005 / Feature / William Greider

Hunter Thompson’s Political Genius Hunter Thompson’s Political Genius

He taught me how to look at politics—and how to do politics.

Feb 22, 2005 / John Nichols

Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused

Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen

Visible Man Visible Man

The Jack Johnson story is about many things, but none more emphatically than the meaning of manhood to the Anglo-Saxon imagination at the turn of the century.

Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate

Show Me the Money! Show Me the Money!

Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by t...

Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

Misunderstanding Iran Misunderstanding Iran

A threatening storm gathers in the Middle East.

Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Reza Aslan

Grand Illusion Grand Illusion

André Malraux incarnated a certain ideal of "the French intellectual." A writer of international renown, he distinguished himself as a man of action before going on to bec...

Feb 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini

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