Books and Ideas

Living La Vida ‘Loca’ Living La Vida ‘Loca’

Few Latino writers have challenged homophobia and machismo as fiercely as Jaime Manrique.

Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George De Stefano

Reality Check–Virtual, of Course Reality Check–Virtual, of Course

A perplexing disconnect from reality haunts the American financial community.

Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Larry Hedrick

Have We Reason to Believe? Have We Reason to Believe?

Scratch a philosopher, find a reductionist revolutionary.

Aug 5, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

Still Not Over Over There? Still Not Over Over There?

The estimates of the number of books written about World War I are in the hundreds of thousands.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Hans Koning

Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home

Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky

Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner

Has anyone read John Dennis? Irving Babbitt? Gorham Munson? Probably not, though they were considered important critics in their day.

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn

Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz

"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."     --Robert Musil

Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Scandalocracy Scandalocracy

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Dallek

Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?

If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse

This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...

Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard

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