Non-fiction

The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril? The Obama Presidency: Possibility or Peril?

A progressive moment was supposed to follow Obama's election. Robert Kuttner's A Presidency in Peril asks where it went.

Jun 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ari Berman

In Our Orbit: What Was Lost In Our Orbit: What Was Lost

Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.

May 12, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Frederick Deknatel

Job’s Comforters

Job’s Comforters Job’s Comforters

Science can be disproved only by its own criteria; when it comes to mental illness, its own criteria are often insufficient.

May 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Adam Phillips

The Idea of England The Idea of England

In the Falling Snow suggests that Caryl Phillips's considerable talents have further calcified into a mannered style.

Apr 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb

Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson

Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson

Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU's self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.

Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower

Living for the City Living for the City

There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.  

Mar 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

A Fine Romance: On Cristina Nehring A Fine Romance: On Cristina Nehring

If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?

Jan 21, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Miriam Markowitz

Human Traffic Human Traffic

Sister Ping turned a variety store in New York's Chinatown into a lucrative business by making it a headquarters for human smuggling.

Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ted Conover

Lessons of Darkness: On Peter Maass Lessons of Darkness: On Peter Maass

For Peter Maass, oil is not a drug so much as a Pandora's box. Tap a well and base instincts spew.

Dec 16, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Mark Sorkin

Across the Great Divide: David Finkel’s Iraq Across the Great Divide: David Finkel’s Iraq

Against the background of the surge, David Finkel twists the concept of wartime good into a cosmic joke.

Nov 19, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb

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