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
Missed Chances Missed Chances
Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.
Nov 19, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Jochen Hellbeck
The First Counter-revolutionary The First Counter-revolutionary
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
Sep 30, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Cornucopia Blues Cornucopia Blues
How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?
Sep 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Brent Cunningham
Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney Vice: The Dispiriting Legacy of Dick Cheney
Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.
May 27, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Holmes
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Georgi Stoev’s Gangster Pulp Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Georgi Stoev’s Gangster Pulp
Georgi Stoev plundered his past in the Bulgarian mob to write a series of popular pulp novels. The mob found them good enough for him to die for.
Apr 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Green Acres: Lost in the Amazon Green Acres: Lost in the Amazon
Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.
Mar 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing
An anthology of true crime writing appeals to the culture vulture--and the plain old vulture--in us.
Mar 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Lorna Scott Fox
Bad Paper Bad Paper
Does the author of They Knew They Were Right really think he has done nothing wrong?
Feb 18, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella