Skeletons in the Closet Skeletons in the Closet
Editor's Note: Due to an unfortunate glitch in production, two lines are missing from the printed version of Daniel Lazare's essay. They have been restored in this version.
Dec 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Weapons of the Weak Weapons of the Weak
African-American history, broadly defined, continues to be the most innovative and exciting field in American historical studies.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / George M. Fredrickson
Occupational Hazards Occupational Hazards
One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
Gray’s Anatomy Gray’s Anatomy
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Danny Postel
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
One of the nation's finest historians, Studs Terkel has told the story of twentieth-century America through the voices of ordinary people.
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Sacred Rage Sacred Rage
Since 9/11, terror has become one of the most fashionable issues on both the American and the international agenda, and almost every publisher has rushed to publish a book writte...
Nov 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Baruch Kimmerling
A Soldier’s Story A Soldier’s Story
In the annals of American politics Winning Modern Wars is an unusual book.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Frances FitzGerald
New York State of Mind New York State of Mind
After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the read...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate
Lost Causes Lost Causes
Nations, like individuals, sustain trauma, mourn and recover. And like individuals they survive by making sense of what has befallen them, by constructing a narrative of loss a...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Laqueur
The Curse of the Caucasus The Curse of the Caucasus
When George Kennan set out for the Caucasus in 1870, few if any Americans had explored the highlands of Dagestan, Chechnya and the wild frontiers of imperial Russia. And with good ...
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raffi Khatchadourian