Books & Ideas

Nationalism in Exile

Following the political dreams of refugee communities

  • John Tirman

Among Enemies

Deabting Carl Schmitt's legal theory

  • Gopal Balakrishnan
  • William E. Scheuerman

Secret Histories

Creating a Colombian national identity through crime fiction.

  • Santiago Gamboa

Why the Right Wins

Two books tell compatible tales of two smallish groupings that made history move.

  • Todd Gitlin

Nonfiction Microreviews

Summer 2001

Down on Law

On Carl Schmitt, Germany’s most influential jurist of the authoritarian right wing.

  • William E. Scheuerman

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The Last Gentleman

A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.

  • James Crumley

No Revolution Without Counterrevolution

On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.

  • Corey Robin

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.

  • Marjorie Perloff

The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell two hundred years of Atlantic history through the everyday struggles of working people. 

  • Robin Blackburn

Review: Microcosms

By Claudio Magris.

  • Justin Coffin

Nonfiction Microreviews

February/March 2001

Ethics and Equality

Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live.

  • Stuart White

Nonfiction Microreviews

December 2000/January 2001

Review: Karmic Traces

By Eliot Weinberger. 

  • John Palattella

Hot on the Trail

Review: Brian McGrory and Toby Olson.

  • Roger Boylan

Review: Plowing the Dark

By Richard Powers.

  • Tom Bissell

Review: What She Saw . . .

By Lucinda Rosenfeld.

  • Jill Eisenstadt

Review: Louisa

By Simone Zelitch.

  • Leora Bersohn

Review: What Are You Like?

By Anne Enright.

  • Robert Karron

Review: Glory Goes and Gets Some

By Emily Carter.

  • Don Hymans

Business and Democracy

Paul Buhle’s Taking Care of Business and Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle’s Democracy is Power  

  • J. W. Mason

Restless Souls

The novels of Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua create their own diaspora

  • Ross Feld

Misbehavior

Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution.

  • John Alcock
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