Israel Is Israel Is
Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
Questions of Loyalty Questions of Loyalty
Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Matt Steinglass
La Zone Grise La Zone Grise
Five books explore the sorrows and moral complexity of Irène Némirovsky and others who suffered Nazi persecution in France.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke
In Nicholson Baker's cut-and-paste history, the "good war" is bad.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt
On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
The race is theirs to lose.
Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Way Forward The Way Forward
The New Deal demonstrated the power of government to address failures of the market, and to retreat once it was no longer needed
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kirti Datla
When and How? When and How?
The ethos of the New Deal is only more prescient and pressing today.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John West
The Change We Wish to See The Change We Wish to See
Real change cannot come from the top down alone; it must rise up from the bottom as well.
Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Grant Resick
Worst News of the Year Worst News of the Year
Here's what's gone wrong so far--and it's only April
Mar 31, 2008 / Column / Annabelle Gurwitch
Internal Combustion Internal Combustion
Could Russell Banks be retooling himself as a fabulist?
Mar 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Holbrook Pierson