Books & Ideas

Race, Class, and the Democrats

A top White House pollster has written an apology for Clinton’s presidency. He had lots of work to do.

  • Ronnie Dugger

Explaining Los Angeles

  • Marc B. Haefele

Into the Electronic Millennium

The first installment of a new series, Terminal Reading.

  • Sven Birkerts

Seeing Eye to Eye

An interview with Arthur Miller.

  • Arthur Miller
  • James Carroll
  • Helen Epstein

Little Ideologies

Anger and ethnicity in American culture.

  • Bennett Berger

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

  • Alan Wald

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Humanizing Capitalism

It’s trickier than we thought.

  • Robert H. Frank

The Long March of the New York Intellectuals

And the fate of criticism.

  • Neil Jumonville

After Rawls

The scramble of moral philosophy.

  • David Steiner

What’s Left for the Left?

Reviewing On Democracy by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers.

  • Christopher S. Allen
  • Suzanne Gordon

The Eye of the Outsider

On the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.

  • Adrienne Rich

The Best-Selling of Vietnam

The distortions of Stanley Karnow’s Vietnam: A History.

  • Noam Chomsky

The Great Refusal

On the 1960’s “inspiring, magnificent core.”

  • Howard Zinn

Journey to Macondo in Search of García Márquez

An interview with the Colombian novelist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Gene Bell-Villada
  • Gabriel García Márquez

How Not to Teach Reading

  • John Holt

Is There Life After Doomsday?

None of us should rest as long as nuclear weapons are loose in the world.

  • Howard L. Rosenberg

Rx for the Second Sex

  • Suzanne Gordon

Philosophers on Photography

  • Pepe Karmel

Approaching 1984

  • William Chace

The Piaget-Chomsky Debate

What future for the cognitive sciences?

  • Howard Gardner

Borges on the Right

To those who are familiar with his writings, Borges’s transformation into a public personality is of supreme irony.

  • Katherine Singer Kovacs

An Interview with Grace Paley

Talking with the writer, teacher, and political activist.

  • Grace Paley
  • Gail Pool
  • Shirley Roses

An Interview with Joseph Campbell

  • Joseph Campbell
  • Gerald McDermott

This Man’s Scope and That Man’s Art

  • Jerrold Hickey
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