Obama cancels Asia trip to focus on oil spill; Free Gaza says new ship is on schedule. Wieseltier: Israel does not need enemies: it has its government. Long Island prodigy recommends plugging the oil leak with tires. Baghdad's U.S. embassy reports property worth millions gone missing. Six
A terrific debut novel set in Rome with a zany ensemble of journalists providing stories.
When your publisher won’t pay you for translating a popular German guide to anal sex, don’t take the law into your own hands—take ‘em to court. But which one?
A one-woman show based on the life and wisdom of journalist Molly Ivins.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson takes on some vexing ontological questions in “Absence of Mind.”
David Shields becomes the poster boy for The Death of the Novel.
Awards given out for the best, worst, and most irritating book trailers.
More palaver about Paul Berman’s “The Flight of the Intellectuals,” some even entertaining.
Translator Suzanne Jill Levine’s important (don’t be scared) book The Subversive Scribe is reissued.
Once more, Obama's supporters want him to rage, rage in a crying for a fight. Economist says Israel must restore idealism and common sense "before it's too late." Op: All hail Netanyahu, blind captain flying blindfolded passengers. Round-up of activists' accounts of
