Non-fiction

After Hours After Hours

At Day's Close details everything that went on in the pre-industrial night, from fear to licentiousness.

Aug 11, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

Fables of the Reconstruction Fables of the Reconstruction

The Informant and Son of the Rough South examine the dynamics of moral choice through the lens of the civil rights movement.

Jul 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Diane McWhorter

Willing Executioners Willing Executioners

Machete Season is an attempt to trace what went on in the minds of the Hutus who helped exterminate their Tutsi fellow citizens in Rwanda.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Fatin Abbas

No Exit Strategy No Exit Strategy

Two new books examine what went wrong in the planning and conduct of the war in Iraq.

Jul 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff

Giving Chutzpah New Meaning Giving Chutzpah New Meaning

Alan Dershowitz is on the defensive over his research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jun 23, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

The Cool War The Cool War

The US government employed jazz musicians as ambassadors to the world during the cold war.

Jun 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton

Revolutionary Suicide Revolutionary Suicide

Eritrea betrayed.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

An Acquired Taste An Acquired Taste

The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Linda Colley

Zippie World! Zippie World!

A look at Thomas Friedman's flattened world.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba

Cosmopolis Cosmopolis

Home for centuries to Christians, Muslims and Jews, Salonica was a cosmopolitan world where people of various cultures and religions lived side by side.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adam LeBor

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