Timothy Snyder / TruthdigFeb 15, 2008
One of the great crimes of the 20th century -- the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories -- is all but forgotten. "The Unknown Black Book" helps us remember. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Mark Arax / TruthdigFeb 8, 2008
It is said that behind every great fortune there is a crime. Here's a true-life drama of self-invention, greed and ambition involving four larger-than-life men who singly, and together, helped create California. A book to be read after you've watched "There Will Be Blood." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Milton Viorst / TruthdigFeb 1, 2008
Can decent Israelis, caught between complacency and conscience, save their beleaguered country from the corruptions of power, religious fanaticism and crippling hubris? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
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Chalmers Johnson / TruthdigJan 25, 2008
A powerful new book by a young South Korean-born economist at Cambridge University provides a compelling critique of the contradictions and hypocrisies of globalization and neoliberalism. The perfect antidote to the nostrums of Thomas Friedman. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Michael Gorra / TruthdigJan 18, 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning author of such stunning (and controversial) novels as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Disgrace" offers up his 19th book, about a South African writer, like Coetzee himself, who now lives in Australia and tries to understand the role of a writer caught between hope and history. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Carol Brightman / TruthdigJan 4, 2008
Three new memoirs by veterans of the New Left provide nuance and complexity to a tumultuous decade whose political and cultural legacy is still contested. Bonus points to those who can answer the question: Do you still need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows? Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )
Carla Kaplan / TruthdigDec 28, 2007
A new collection of letters between the fascinating Mitford sisters offers unparalleled insight into one of the 20th century's most famous families. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Zachary Karabell / TruthdigDec 21, 2007
With religious passions inflaming and complicating politics worldwide, the very project of a secular future is threatened. In "The Stillborn God," Mark Lilla reveals the roots of the age-old quest to bring political life under God's authority. He also explores how modern Western thinkers found a way to free politics from theological power and build barriers against destructive religious fanaticism. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Benjamin Barber / TruthdigDec 14, 2007
Can an overheated market remedy an underachieving democracy? Can the public interest be served by an economic engine in which corporate rivals use government to quash their competitors? These and other questions are the subject of a provocative new book by Robert Reich, labor secretary under President Clinton. Benjamin Barber, author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" and "Consumed," takes a close look at Reich's argument. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Cristina Nehring / TruthdigNov 30, 2007
One of our most trenchant critics takes a withering look at how contemporary essayists in a global world have gone increasingly, foolishly, local. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Eunice Wong / TruthdigNov 29, 2007
Todd Haynes' film "I'm Not There," "inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan," shows that art reveals truth when it has the imagination to move away from the imitation of reality. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
John Mack Faragher / TruthdigNov 23, 2007
One of the most gifted historians of the American West takes a close look at the remarkable tale of triumph and tragedy that Keith Meldahl recounts in his dramatic story of the largest overland migration since the Crusades, as well as the equally compelling epic of the geology of the harsh and sublime Western landscape. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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