Thrilling Desperation
Edna O'Brien's new novel fashions a powerful metaphor for a blighted son of Ireland
Inspired Immaturity
The midlife crisis as a patriotic duty
Missing Pieces
The strange case of the disappearing arias and adagios
The Birth of the Sun
New York is littered with the carcasses of failed newspapers. What are the chances for the latest upstart?
The Iceberg Wars
Competition for one of Newfoundland's chief natural resources heats up
Poetry Out Loud
One of the biggest changes in modern poetry is its escape from the page to the performance
The Unilateralist
A conversation with Paul Wolfowitz
Leaving It to the Professionals
Clearing away clutter is no substitute for keeping house
The World in 2005
Hidden in plain sight
God's Goodness
A short story
Daniel
Restaurants worth building a trip around
A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier
What one prominent Pakistani thinks his country should do with its atomic weapons
A Failure of Intelligence
Gilles Kepel's obituary of Islamism was written before September 11
An Ireland of Legend
Following in the mythic footsteps of Queen Maeve
1491
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact
Third-Class Citizen
Whose lifestyle is it anyway?
New & Noteworthy
Stories of doomed affairs, by Richard Ford; a "profoundly satisfying" literary correspondence; children of the Middle Ages
Nobel Sentiments
Pious thoughts from wise fools
The Apocalypse of Adolescence
This spring one of two Vermont teenagers charged with the knifing murder of two Dartmouth College professors will go on trial. The case offers entry to a disturbing subject—acts of lethal violence committed by "ordinary" teenagers from "ordinary" communities, teenagers who have become detached from civic life, saturated by the mythic violent imagery of popular culture, and consumed by the dictates of some private murderous fantasy
Does Democracy Need Voters?
The question Europe still needs to answer
Jack or Jill?
The era of consumer-driven eugenics has begun
Islam Versus the Pleasure Principle
Russian muftis have condemned the war in Afghanistan, but Tatar Muslims have other things on their minds. Like Mork & Mindy
The Beauty of the Conjuring
The pernicious power of fine storytelling is a central theme in Ian McEwan's new novel
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