Does America Need a Foreign Policy? book by Henry Kissinger
Peter Ibbetson
Even before the events of September 11, the world was by no means an unexciting place. Slobodan Milosevic was stirring up trouble in Eastern Europe. The European Union, meanwhile, was…
Non Fiction
More, Now, Again book by Elizabeth Wurtzel
When Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27, she published the best-selling Prozac Nation, a memoir of her struggle with depression. On the cover was a picture of Wurtzel wearing a little dress,…
The Future of Life book by Edward O. Wilson
Environmentalism is a large-scale lesson in sacrifice. Each time conservationists compel us to grudgingly concede a patch of land to nature, we are losers to the earth, which we cherish…
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White book by Frank H. Wu
It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Yale. I am attending one of the accompanying lectures when a graduate student comes up to me, an Asian American, and asks…
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White book by Frank H. Wu
It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Yale. I am attending one of the accompanying lectures when a graduate student comes up to me, an Asian American, and asks…
Party of the People book by Jules Whitcover Grand Old Party book by Lewis L. Gould reviewed by David Noyola
Bipartisan Reading Incisive accounts of the Democratic and Republican parties When the tenor of politics is inflamed, partisan bickering precludes historical perspective. As attacks and recriminations pile up, politicians and…
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear book by Jim Steinmeyer reviewed by Kirsti Potter
The Magic Touch An insider explains the history of stage illusions From time to time, magic and its modern practitioners still steal into the spotlight—even without counting the wily tricks…
The Holy Grail by Richard Barber, reviewed by Momo Sugawara
The Holy Grail by Richard Barber Harvard, 488 pp, $27.95 Reviewed by Momo Sugawara The literary and historical mystery of the Holy Grail has been a recurring motif in Western…
Triangle by David Von Drehle, reviewed by David Carpman
Triangle by David Von Drehle Atlantic Monthly Press, 352 pp, $25.00 reviewed by David Carpman Triangle, David Von Drehle’s portrait of the buzzing metropolis that was turn of the century…