By Robert Malley1.In its final year in office and the first year of its Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, the Bush administration has introduced the latest and in some respects oddest idea for achieving peace, the shelf agreement. Its logic is straightforward. Prime
By Alison LuriePetrosinella: A Neapolitan Rapunzelretold and illustrated by Diane StanleyGolden: A Retelling of "Rapunzel"by Cameron DokeyLetters from Rapunzelby Sara Lewis HolmesRapunzelby Barbara Rogasky, illustrated by Trina Schart HymanZelby Donna Jo NapoliThe Tower Roomby Adèle GerasSugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzelby
By Harold W. AttridgeReading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianityby Elaine Pagels and Karen L. KingThe Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayedby Bart D. EhrmanOf the many works promising new
By Michael ChabonLush Lifeby Richard PriceThe protagonists of Richard Price's first four novels suffer from the fatal weakness of character known to moralists, comedians, writers of tragedy, and bullshit artists as New York City. Brash and withdrawn; hangdog and prone
By William DalrympleThe Arts of KashmirIn November 1989, as a young journalist newly arrived in India, I was sent to Kashmir to cover a series of violent incidents in the state capital of Srinagar. Those protests turned out to be
By Tony JudtThe twentieth century is hardly behind us but already its quarrels and its achievements, its ideals and its fears are slipping into the obscurity of mis-memory. In the West we have made haste to dispense whenever possible with
By Garry WillsTwo men, two speeches. The men, both lawyers, both from Illinois, were seeking the presidency, despite what seemed their crippling connection with extremists. Each was young by modern standards for a president. Abraham Lincoln had turned fifty-one just
By Vaclav HavelThe recent events in Tibet and adjoining provinces are cause for deep concern. Indeed, the dispersal of a peaceful protest march organized by Tibetan monks, which led to a wave of unrest that was brutally suppressed by the
At The Guardian they asked Arabic authors and those involved or familiar with Arabic publishing and literature "about the challenges of writing today and which works they think the world should have the chance to read" in One thousand and
Arnost Lustig has taken the 2008 Franz Kafka Prize (which gained a lot of publicity -- and Nobel Prize punters' attention -- when they gave their award to the eventual Nobel winner two years running (Jelinek in 2004, Pinter in
A new surveylists the books and music that are most likely to put one asleep. Celebrity biographies are apparently just the ticket for a trip to slumberland. As for music? It's Coldplay by a mile.Britons like a dose of music
Hyperion Books founder Robert S. Miller is leavingHyperion to found a controversial new book group for HarperCollins. The new book group proposes not payingadvances to authors. Instead it will pay authors only if the book makes a profit. Needless to
