Man Without a Country
V. S. Naipaul and the artistic rewards of statelessness
Book Review
Hollywood: A Love Story
Often spot-on, sometimes creepy, David Thomson’s masterwork is the most influential book ever written about the movies—and the most infuriating.
Red Rosa
The writings of the martyred socialist Rosa Luxemburg give a plaintive view of history’s paths not taken.
Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man
How the most exasperating of poets met his match
The Legacy of Malcolm X
Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama
Sympathy for the Tiger Moms
The national convulsion over Amy Chua’s parenting has lead people to hate or fear mothers like me. They should feel sorry for us instead.
Leave Those Kids Alone
Childhood is more than merely a springboard to adulthood.
The Ivy Delusion
The real reason the good mothers are so rattled by Amy Chua
The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony.
From Berlin to bin Laden
A history of the Baghdad Express illuminates the resilience of politicized Islam.