TMN is currently on its annual retreat and will resume publishing on Monday, June 25--until then, perhaps you'd like to fill out our reader survey and maybe win a new iPod? Change in the rules for war casualty photos requires soldier signatures. Motion sensors at home may
As mentioned in last week’s features, “Sacrifice” and the first “Letter From Paris,” TMN chiefs Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin are currently traveling away from New York to their other loves, Austin and Paris, respectively. As an exercise in sharing their new homes with each other—cities that the
As Coney Island gears up for its annual fancy-dress bacchanalia, the mermaids on parade contemplate the legendary funpark’s mortality.
Israel allows 140 Russians to leave Gaza, remains tight-lipped on fates of Palestinians who also want to flee. Questions and answers about the Palestinian territories' two governments. Unlike East Germany's government, Hamas has been democratically elected. Why the West Bank is not like West Berlin. Palestinians
Major offensive in Iraq as U.S. forces target al-Qaeda stronghold. Baghdad car bomb kills at least 75. Bulls, china: Troops in Iraq receive archaeological playing cards on how to preserve antiquities. Cuba's unofficial first lady, Vilma Espin, dies at 77. New York's Chelsea Hotel
On a trip back to India, our author sets his itinerary in search of his past. But in an ever-changing country, history can be difficult to find. The first in a series of travel essays.
U.S. sets free millions to Fatah so Abu Mazan can survive; Gaza gets lopped off, and a democratically-elected government topples. How to make a living smuggling weapons into Gaza. Pakistani minister calls for suicide attack after Rushdie is to be knighted. Hersh on Taguba, the Abu Ghraib investigator.
Casual wardrobes devoted to saving energy in China. Boy meets girl, girl dumps boy, boy maims girl with lye, boy serves time, boy proposes, girl accepts. Stolen car stolen again the same day. Germany's Robin Hood banker sentenced for his non-profit embezzlement. Retired bullfighter returns to Barcelona
A Young People’s History of the United States Vols. I and II; Chasing the Rising Sun; The Opposite House; The Uncertain Hour; Pulp Writer; Nazi Germany and the Jews (1939-1945), Vol. II; The Interloper; The Summer Shack Cookbook; Four Novels of the 1960s; Cataloochee; God Is Dead; Her Way; 1967
One effect of the U.S. attorneys' firings: "Targeted for political reasons" may be popularized as a courtroom defense. Top general in Iraq says surge results won't be sufficient by September, check back in a few years. Targeting al Qaeda in Afghanistan, U.S. airstrikes
