Books & Ideas

A Too-Modest Proposal

A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.

  • Avner Inbar
  • Assaf Sharon

From the Editors: July/August 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Winning the Future

Should political scientists care more about politics?

  • Archon Fung

Apocalypse

There are no natural disasters, only social ones.

  • Junot Díaz

Vanishing Point

Few people have heard of Baird’s tapir, and fewer still know anything about them.

  • Niall McCann

The Novel Is Not Dead

Despite critics’ best attempts to kill it.

  • Jess Row

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Government’s Place In the Market

A Q&A With Eliot Spitzer

  • Eliot Spitzer
  • David V. Johnson

Budgetary Hemlock

Nevada Seeks to Eliminate Philosophy

  • Todd Edwin Jones

The Anatomy of Influence

An interview with Harold Bloom.

  • Adam Fitzgerald

The “Illth” of Nations

Enlarging our sense of the economy.

  • David Bollier
  • Jonathan Rowe

From the Editors: March/April 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Passing Through

Why the Open Internet Is Worth Saving

  • Evgeny Morozov

How to be Happy

The ethics of David Foster Wallace.

  • Leland de la Durantaye

Into the Breach

China Miéville’s other reality.

  • Henry Farrell

From the Editors: January/February 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Saving Souls

David Grossman’s article of faith.

  • Vivian Gornick

Harm’s Way

Our penal system, with its black tinge, constitutes a profound racial injustice. But is it a new form of Jim Crow?

  • James Forman, Jr.

Business As Usual

We’re just biding time for the next Wall Street collapse.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Our Poems, Ourselves

Does autobiography make good poetry?

  • Stephanie Burt

Microreview: Rachel Loden, Dick of the Dead

An investigation into American sexual and political consciousness with Nixon at its center. 

  • Fred Muratori

Microreview: Kate Greenstreet, The Last Four Things

Poems preoccupied with details: the concrete, physical materials of future and past. 

  • Sara Femenella

Microreview: Monica Youn, Ignatz

Humor and love act like cat and mouse in this collection.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Barbara Claire Freeman, Incivilities

Poems whose power to depict the zeitgeist rivals the iconic image making of Dorothea Lange.

  • Virginia Konchan

Song of Solomon Transformed My Life

Dave Eggers interviews Junot Díaz

  • Junot Díaz
  • Dave Eggers
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