Books & Ideas

Life Work

Nicholson Baker grows up

  • John Crowley

From the Editors: November/December 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey. 

  • Jan-Werner Müller

Books After Amazon

Amazon isn’t just bad for cities; it’s also bad for books.

  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Suppose You’re an Idiot

Mark Twain tells his own story.

  • Roger Boylan

A Question of Character

  • David M. Kennedy

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Review: Union!

By Ish Klein.

  • Kristina Marie Darling

Colonial Studies

What humans can learn from the non-hierarchical organization of ants.

  • Deborah M. Gordon

The Ancient Dream

The tumultuous marriage of Leo and Sophia Tolstoy

  • Vivian Gornick

From the Editors: September/October 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Sharing Liberally

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

  • Evgeny Morozov

Clear and Hold

The Return of the Urban Dreamscape—in Brooklyn

  • Casey Walker

Mind the Gap

Are the harms of economic inequality primary psychological?

  • Claude S. Fischer

From the Editors: May/June 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Speak, Memory

Can digital storage remember for you?

  • Evgeny Morozov

Keynes, Recovered

Separating Keynes from the Keynesians

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

  • Roger Boylan

From the Editors: March/April 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen

Right By Others

On the theory and practice of justice.

  • Vivian Gornick

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

  • Ned Block
  • Philip Kitcher

Fine By Me

Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement.

  • James Wallenstein

Last Wishes

On Nabokov’s Novel in Fragments.

  • Leland de la Durantaye

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

  • Ryan Thoreson

Desperately Seeking Sam

Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death.

  • Roger Boylan
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