Non-fiction

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

Twist and Shout Twist and Shout

What Michael Lind believes Abraham Lincoln believed.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / James M. McPherson

Just My Imagination Just My Imagination

Russell Jacoby's study of utopian thought is a flawed treasure.

May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

A review of James Hurt's Writing Illinois.

May 25, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Megan Marz

The Family World System The Family World System

The family in the twentieth century.

May 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Perry Anderson

Trainspotting Trainspotting

A misleading history of the Underground Railroad.

May 4, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Drew Faust

Crouching Tiger Crouching Tiger

Being Stanley Crouch is about as bruising a vocation as there is in what passes for--or remains of--polite literary society.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Gene Seymour

The Other 1905 Revolution The Other 1905 Revolution

Albert Einstein's banner year.

Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Foer

Before the Law Before the Law

A new book on Isaeli courts in the West Bank and Gaza.

Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Neve Gordon

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