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
A Kiss in Java A Kiss in Java
In a broad square not far from the center of Jakarta, a large obelisk of concrete soars into the sky.
Oct 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
How the Other Half Learns How the Other Half Learns
Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom have long been pillars of highbrow conservatism in America.
Oct 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Schrag
The One-State Solution The One-State Solution
Is Zionism a failed ideology? This question will strike many people as absurd on its face.
Oct 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare