online archive
1:00PM
MAR 11 2008
How far they have travelled
From Esquire, Thomas P.M. Barnett on Admiral William "Fox" Fallon, the man between war and peace. How to swim against the current: People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture. How to misread Robbe-Grillet: Jonathan Meades on the supreme novelist of France's trente glorieuses. From nthposition, here is the urban legend: the miscreant shooter misinterprets The Catcher in the Rye; and more on Modernism by Peter Gay. Rise of the super-mayor: How mayors of American cities are coping with suburban growth. A review of Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography. A review of Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney. How far they have travelled: A Turkish-based movement, which sounds more reasonable than most of its rivals, is vying to be recognised as the world's leading Muslim network. Feel safer now? Most anti-terrorist spending is wasteful, claims a new study. More on Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh. The lowdown on God's showdown: Many evangelical Christians tremble with excitement at the thought that they are the "last generation" and "Jesus is due to return soon". From Smithsonian, from bebop to hip-hop, nobody alive has done more for American music than Quincy Jones. A review of Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration With Zionism, 1917-1948 by Hillel Cohen.
