Policy Wank
Bill Clinton's sodden memoir goes into all the wrong detail
Book Review
The Immortal
A new biography reaches the heart of the labyrinth—the intense and wondrous life of Jorge Luis Borges
Mother of All Mothers
The leadership secrets of Kim Jong Il
New & Noteworthy
What to read this month
Odd Couple
Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael: a curious combination
The Old Man
Even for educated readers, Leon Trotsky survives as part kitsch and part caricature. But the reissue of a majestic biography reveals him as he always was—a prophetic moralist
The Terrors
One of the foremost scholars of Soviet history assesses an ambitious new biography of Stalin
The Kids Are All Right
Teens aren't as warped as some of the books about them
Shopworn
Like the Valley Girls who made it famous, the suburban mall is now on the wrong side of forty