Hail Ira
“Rosemary's Baby” author Ira Levin died this week—and it wasn’t a lousy book review that killed him.
Archive
A collection of 14235 issues
14 November 2007: Afternoon
Democrats calculate wars' costs, including hidden expenses, and tally $1.5 trillion. Leading the information dissemination charge are websites. Detailed notes on the e-resistance rising in Pakistan. Spanish editor and cartoonist fined for comic mocking crown prince, "chipping away a bit more from the fragile pillar of
Long Live the File-Sharers
As the recent loss of OiNK sits heavy in our hearts, I’d like to take some time out to think about the other file-sharing applications that have come before us and made the world a better place. Not the cold and utilitarian Napsters or the sleazy-yet-reliable
14 November 2007: Morning
Democrats respond to Bush's domestic spending veto, threaten to withhold war funding unless he agrees to Iraq withdrawal. U.S. bridge players face sanctions for anti-Bush sign at last month's championship tournament. Ongoing FBI Blackwater investigation finds at least 14 of the 17 shootings were
Children’s Letters to George W. Bush
The White House is besieged by requests from all corners, even America’s classrooms. A trove of letters to the president, discovered.
13 November 2007: Afternoon
Post music critic apologizes for insulting former crack-smoking D.C. mayor Marion Berry. At the center of a brutal Italian murder is an unlikely suspect: a twenty-year-old American study-abroad student. New issue of Murdaland; stories from the other side of America's obsession with murder.
13 November 2007: Morning
Bhutto, again under house arrest during a planned protest, again calls on Musharraf to resign. Ahmad Chalabi, who once bore false info about WMDs, is back at work with the U.S.--this time to restore services to Baghdad. Judge orders White House to preserve its email, citing the Federal
Dianne Reeves
The jazz chanteuse talks about meeting a legend, experimenting with styles, and finding her own voice.
12 November 2007: Afternoon
Analysis on how assertive, bullying Russian tactics "have evoked stress in the Baltics that was unthinkable even five years ago." Photo gallery from Ghazaliya, a Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad. Unknown fate for the tomb of the unknown soldier. Robert Birnbaum on the death of Mailer in this
Book Digest: November 12, 2007
Sovereign Bones; Running the Table; Fidel Castro: El Líder Máximo, A Life in Pictures; The Principles of Uncertainty; Arnaldo Pomodoro: General Catalogue of Sculptures; Love and Language; &Fork; Legends of the Chelsea Hotel; Graphic Design; Will Eisner’s The Spirit; An Island Called Home