Destination: Jersey Shore
Bruce Springsteen may provide the soundtrack to your boardwalk stroll, but great novels by Richard Ford and Frederick Reiken should keep you company on the beach.
Thursday, Aug 3, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment
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Why foreign aid doesn’t work
An economist says big ideas to "end poverty" have failed for decades -- and that the West needs to fight the war one village at a time.
Wednesday, Apr 5, 2006 11:03 AM UTC 10Entertainment Author Interviews, Books
Laguna biatch
How a real-life mean girl has become TV's most improbable teen role model.
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2005 11:00 AM UTC 12Entertainment The Hills
Conversations with mass murderers
In "Machete Season," 10 Hutu men recall how they enjoyed slaughtering their neighbors with machetes and clubs -- and six years after the Rwanda genocide, feel no guilt.
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2005 4:09 PM UTCEntertainment Books
I married a bin Laden
Osama's former sister-in-law tells all: Secret Saudi lesbian trysts, a husband who ordered her to have abortions, and the magical power of the name bin Laden within the Saudi luxury class.
Saturday, Jul 10, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Religion, George W. Bush
Sex and drugs in hell
The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
Thursday, Jul 8, 2004 3:32 PM UTCLife
The Sopranos’ stomping ground
The world can make fun of New Jersey -- big hair, Bada Bing, Bon Jovi and all -- but natives know who's boss.
Friday, Jun 4, 2004 9:56 PM UTCEntertainment
The military’s hazing hell
Carol Burke, author of "Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High and Tight," talks to Salon about the military's frat-boy culture, how torture and initiation rites are used to transform civilians into soldiers -- and how Abu Ghraib is just a drop in the bucket.
Friday, Jun 4, 2004 5:23 PM UTCLife Torture, Abu Ghraib
The secret history of American literature
Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history.
Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Nonfiction, Books
Twisted sisters
In her new book, Alexandra Robbins goes undercover as a sorority sister at an anonymous university. What she found was very little sisterhood -- but a lot of hardcore hazing, public humiliation, binge drinking and extreme peer pressure.
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2004 5:07 PM UTCLife
Dubya’s angels
Laura Flanders talks about her book "Bushwomen," and why the media has given a free pass to Condi Rice, Christie Whitman, Elaine Chao and the other women who've put a pretty face on ugly policies.
Monday, Apr 12, 2004 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Author Interviews, Books
“We stood by while this happened”
Author Steve Coll discusses "Ghost Wars," his new book about how the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan, tried to work with the Taliban, and failed to stop Osama bin Laden -- even though terrified CIA agents knew he was about to strike.
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2004 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Afghanistan, George W. Bush
Tomorrow’s news, today!
The man behind the masked penguin explains what turned him into an avidly political cartoonist, and the "inherent optimism" behind those blistering comic strips.
Thursday, Aug 14, 2003 11:07 PM UTCEntertainment Books
“Nina: Adolescence” by Amy Hassinger
A family torn apart by tragedy dissolves into abuse and neglect in this creepy, beguiling debut.
Saturday, Aug 2, 2003 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
“A blink of an eye, and a million killed”
Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
Thursday, Jul 31, 2003 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Africa, Author Interviews
Rebel from the yeshiva
Director Eitan Gorlin on "The Holy Land," his controversial film about a rabbinical student running wild in Jerusalem, and why some Jews don't like its explosive portrait of late-'90s Israel.
Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Religion, Middle East, Movies
Taxi! Get me outta here
In two books by Strawberry Saroyan and Meghan Daum, the young media chick protagonists get chewed up and spit out by New York.
Thursday, Jul 17, 2003 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
For poorer and for poorer
For young couples trying to start a new life together, the dismal economy means more fighting, postponed weddings -- and less sex.
Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003 8:03 PM UTCLife
“Everyone is flawed and there are no simple solutions”
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur talks about "The Sea," his tempestuous and extraordinary drama of a fishing family's self-destruction.
Friday, May 16, 2003 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Iceland, Movies
The sins of the mother
Lionel Shriver discusses her chilling new novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," her fears about motherhood and how Columbine monsters are made.
Thursday, May 8, 2003 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Author Interviews, Books
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