Banana Kings Banana Kings
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
Feb 28, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso
Good Faith Good Faith
Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.
Feb 28, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Fourteen Little Words Fourteen Little Words
First Amendment biographer Anthony Lewis brings glad tidings: despite Bush, US commitment to free speech "is no longer in doubt."
Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Chavez’s Fix Chavez’s Fix
Is Venezuela's president undoing his country's experiment in democracy?
Feb 21, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Wilkinson
Revolutionary States Revolutionary States
Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
Feb 14, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ronald Grigor Suny
The Ice Forge The Ice Forge
The generation that came of age in Stalin's Russia was torn between perpetual fear and profound emotional investment in the Soviet ideal.
Feb 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jochen Hellbeck
The Big Yam The Big Yam
Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
Jan 31, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John Feffer
New Old Things New Old Things
A new collection of short pieces by the prodigious and wide-ranging critic Luc Sante doubles as a history of Modernism's outlaws.
Jan 31, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Frances Richard
Rambling Man Rambling Man
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
On the Books On the Books
A "rogue sociologist" gains unprecedented insight on the day-to-day workings of a Chicago gang.
Jan 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Ted Conover