Non-fiction

So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone? So, Is It Back to Bowling Alone?

The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

Feb 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom

The recent arrest in Israel of eight apocalyptic cult members, who reportedly planned to take their own lives at the millennium or provoke authorities into killing them, rev...

Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bettina Drew

The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks

What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet

History may not have come to a stop in 1989, but the public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eterna...

Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama

Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with "Praise for Perjury"--a reissue of Allen Weinstein's book on the Hiss-Chambers case.

Oct 16, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

The Marching Saint The Marching Saint

Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible saints of the modern American left.

May 22, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

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