Culture

Love by a Thousand Cuts Love by a Thousand Cuts

Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

A Colder War A Colder War

Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

Underworlds Underworlds

Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Henry Farrell

Terra Incognita Terra Incognita

A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ruth Scurr

Judith Regan’s Lawsuit Against Fox News Judith Regan’s Lawsuit Against Fox News

This is only going to get more interesting.

Nov 21, 2007 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Studs’s People Studs’s People

For Studs Terkel, the touchstone is memory and speech the stuff of which his art is made.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Harry Maurer

Moyers & FDR Moyers & FDR

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit today.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Bill Moyers

President Rudy’s War Council President Rudy’s War Council

Norman Podhoretz and Daniel Pipes consider how the newly elected President should proceed in the world arena. The first act of a five-act play.

Nov 21, 2007 / Peter C. Baker

War Novelist War Novelist

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. By Norman Mailer. Rinehart and Company. $4.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Ira Wolfert

The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest The Thinking Person’s Reader’s Digest

Lapham's Quarterly makes its debut, seeking to explain the present with illuminations from the past.

Nov 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Evan Cornog

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