Books and Ideas

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

Victor Navasky's new memoir of opinion journalism.

May 4, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation

Trainspotting Trainspotting

A misleading history of the Underground Railroad.

May 4, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Drew Faust

The Avenging Angel The Avenging Angel

For abolitionist John Brown, equality was not a theoretical stance but a daily practice.

May 4, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

The Lincoln Museum and Springfield’s Shame The Lincoln Museum and Springfield’s Shame

Visiting the Lincoln Museum and exposing a dark chapter in the town's history.

Apr 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune

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

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