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
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 UTCAn 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 10How a real-life mean girl has become TV's most improbable teen role model.
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2005 11:00 AM UTC 12In "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 UTCOsama'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 UTCThe 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 UTCThe 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 UTCCarol 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 UTCMark 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 UTCIn 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 UTCLaura 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 UTCAuthor 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 UTCThe 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 UTCA family torn apart by tragedy dissolves into abuse and neglect in this creepy, beguiling debut.
Saturday, Aug 2, 2003 7:00 PM UTCAuthor 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 UTCDirector 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 UTCIn 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 UTCFor 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 UTCIcelandic 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 UTCLionel 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 UTCPage 1 of 7 in Suzy Hansen