Bush Family Values Bush Family Values
It's hard to know which is more interesting: the latest book by Kevin Phillips or Phillips himself.
Feb 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Drew
A Faithful Servant A Faithful Servant
Most Americans take their system of government for granted, as if Moses himself had delivered the Constitution engraved on marble tablets.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
A Tragedy of Errors A Tragedy of Errors
About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo.
Feb 5, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
For a man ostensibly telling us what narcissism means to him, Tony Hoagland sure lets his friends do a lot of the talking. But maybe that's the point. In other people, he sees hi...
Jan 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Megan Marz
Our Man in Chile Our Man in Chile
When Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, the Nixon Administration declared its support for the "preservation of Chilea...
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Nina Englander
Willi the Red Willi the Red
"This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism so far carried out," reported a 1933 Berlin newspaper.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Business of Theory The Business of Theory
The last decade or two have witnessed an insidious shift in American culture, one that goes to the heart of the way we talk about our society.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
You Had to Be There You Had to Be There
Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Lust for Life Lust for Life
The afterlife of Italian poet, novelist, critic and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brings to mind some familiar lines from Auden's "In Memory of W.B.
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba
All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun
Colin MacCabe's new book is more a provocative polemic than a rounded biography, but it deserves the highest praise for being inspired by the belief that in the early 1960s Jean-...
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Thomson