Reading between the lines.

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• The Birth, and Death, of the Asian Babe The sordid history of the sexually exotic East.
  Johann Hari June 29, 2009
  
• Saint Izzy The tiresome canonizing of I.F. Stone.
  David Oshinsky June 19, 2009
  
• 1959 I swear, it really is the year everything changed.
  Fred Kaplan June 18, 2009
  
• When America First Met the Microchip At the time, few knew it would change the world.
  Fred Kaplan June 18, 2009
  
• How on Earth Do You Tame Extremists? Cass Sunstein tackles an impossible task.
  Christopher Caldwell June 14, 2009
  
• The Examined, and Exhibited, Life Updike was the consummate stylist with a blogger mentality.
  Brad Leithauser June 7, 2009
  
• Nowhere Man The secret of Aleksandar Hemon's brilliant satire.
  Adam Kirsch May 25, 2009
  
• Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Get out of your cubicle, and get those cuticles dirty!
  Michael Agger May 19, 2009
  
• The Myth of Gabriel García Márquez How the Colombian writer really changed literature.
  Michael Wood May 18, 2009
  
• Helen Gurley Brown's Sexy Mistake She was obsessed with the wrong revolution.
  Laura Shapiro May 11, 2009
  
• Out of Africa? Foreign aid is part of the problem, but so is corrupt politics.
  Francis Fukuyama May 1, 2009
  
• Where's Our Scapegoat? Meet Ivar Kreuger, greedy villain of the 1930s.
  Sam Kean April 27, 2009
  
• Why the Wicked Witch Isn't Dead The timeless allure of witch hunting.
  Johann Hari April 17, 2009
  
• Let's Fight Wars on Earth, Not in Heaven How to define, and avoid, a cosmic war.
  Alan Wolfe April 13, 2009
  
• Why Write While Israel Burns? Amos Oz's entrancing paranoia.
  Judith Shulevitz April 6, 2009
  
• What Would Happen if You Couldn't Stop Crying? Mary Gaitskill's deeply strange new vision.
  Claire Dederer March 30, 2009
  
• The Call of the Wild Wells Tower's debut collection is strong stuff.
  Juliet Lapidos March 24, 2009
  
• The Educational Experiment We Really Need What the Knowledge Is Power Program has yet to prove.
  Sara Mosle March 20, 2009
  
• How To Understand the Culture of Poverty William Julius Wilson once again defies both right and left.
  Sudhir Venkatesh March 16, 2009
  
• The Hidden Heart of Cheever Country What John Cheever, a spy in suburbia, uncovered at last.
  Nathan Heller March 11, 2009
  
• Scribblers of America, Unite! Are women writers undervalued because of what they write or how we read?
  Katha Pollitt March 9, 2009
  
• What Do Humans Owe Animals? The many dangers of anthropomorphism.
  Emily Yoffe March 2, 2009
  
• Money Made Him Do It What Samuel Johnson can teach us about writing.
  Adam Kirsch Feb. 23, 2009
  
• Seven Habits of Truly Liberal People Alan Wolfe's persuasive portrait of liberalism.
  K. Anthony Appiah Feb. 16, 2009
  
• Lessons From the Gilded Age What Social Darwinists didn't get about evolution.
  Adam Kirsch Feb. 9, 2009
  
• How Good Are We, Really? There's only so much science can tell us about human morality.
  Howard Gardner Feb. 2, 2009
  
• The Mystery of Perversion What idiosyncratic lust can, and can't, tell us.
  Peter D. Kramer Jan. 26, 2009
  
• The Riddle of Herbert Hoover How the hypercompetent technocrat failed.
  David Greenberg Jan. 19, 2009
  
• Move Over, Thoreau Rationalist environmentalism better prevail, and fast.
  Johann Hari Jan. 12, 2009
  
• Richard Yates' Real Masterpiece What Kate Winslet doesn't tell you about Yates and women.
  Blake Bailey Jan. 5, 2009