Books and Ideas

The Rest of Love The Rest of Love

The hive is for where the honey was. Was findable there, then not. Sometimes, I think I dreamed it, or I am saying it like a thing

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?

The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’

Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.

Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.

Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

Sweet Soul Music Sweet Soul Music

As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is that he was a soul-mus...

Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

New York, New York New York, New York

The economy of New York City still reels from the attack on September 11, to which has been added the economic effect of global recession and Wall Street's sharp decline.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mary Campbell Gallagher

Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?

Judgment Day is everyday with Mike Davis.

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay

Occupation Blues Occupation Blues

While Israel's decisive victories on the battlefield and overwhelming advantage in military force are crucial to its dominance in the Middle East, perhaps just as important is ...

Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Jensen

The Conservative Imagination The Conservative Imagination

Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / George Packer

Beyond the AIDS Quilt Beyond the AIDS Quilt

Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.

Dec 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim

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