A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned
Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
To the Unfinished To the Unfinished
Clear eminence without whom I would be nothing oh great provision never seen barely acknowledged even wished away
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin
Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours
Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
There's no better antidote to orange alerts and duct-tape dictums than good fiction, and if the terrorists occupying the White House have shot your attention span, try a book of ...
Mar 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Judith Long
Against the Genetic Grain Against the Genetic Grain
I first heard of Jon Beckwith in the mid-1970s, in a question framed by my genetics professor: Why would anyone willfully disrupt a research program designed to collect useful ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Marks
Germline Warfare Germline Warfare
A most remarkable event occurred in the weeks preceding the June 2000 announcement of the completion of the first draft of the human genome DNA code: One of the leaders of the ...
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave
War and Remembrance War and Remembrance
In a provocative book published recently in Germany, a Hamburg scholar named Klaus Briegleb appeared to take on the entire national literary establishment for indulging in self...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Hugh Eakin
Guns in the Courtroom Guns in the Courtroom
In the late summer and fall of 1997, small news leaks began appearing that Mayor Edward Rendell of Philadelphia (who is now governor of Pennsylvania) was thinking about suing t...
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl T. Bogus
Around the World in 80 Ways Around the World in 80 Ways
In about five years' time, there will be a new Paul Theroux travel book, and it will look like this.
Mar 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
Court Reporter Court Reporter
On June 4, 1961, John F. Kennedy held his last meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder