online archive
5:00PM
MAR 26 2008
Wildly divergent worldviews
From Seed, what will happen when the two most populous nations on Earth join scientific forces? A review of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy. Foreign Policy looks back at the war’s most memorable moments. A Space Odyssey's feuding fathers: The 20th century's defining sci-fi epic was a byproduct of collaboration between two geniuses with wildly divergent worldviews. An interview with Kyoto Prize winner Hiroo Inokuchi on dreams of a carbon future. Anders Kreuger presents extensive research underlying "The Continental Unconscious", his exhibition about Finno-Ugric art and culture that opens in Tallinn this month. Stories about the workings of the real mafia evoke horrid images — and make for good reading. The novelist Isabel Allende once took a potent hallucinogen to overcome writer's block, but no such stimulants were needed to fuel her most gripping work yet. An excerpt form Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right, and Built an American Kingdom by John Gorenfeld. A review of The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade by Gerard J. DeGroot. From Good, an article on harvesting the organs of death-row inmates. Descended from Salinger: The precocious children J. D. Salinger introduced to the literary landscape 60 years ago are still with us.
