Victims' families split whether D.C. sniper Muhammad's scheduled execution today will bring justice. Seventy years after it disappeared during Kristallnacht, a 500-year-old Hebrew Bible travels back to a Viennese library. How the current medical malpractice system is broken--and how in its disrepair, it&
Our man in Boston talks to Tobias Wolff about the art of revision, how writing programs are good for training skilled readers, and why Robert Olen Butler still signs stock.
The "Cold War" of the Andes, between Venezuela and Colombia, now involves illegal armed gangs and mysterious killings. Five myths about grand actors pulling strings behind the Berlin Wall's tumble. Gingrich: The Wall was toppled by the Pope! Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely. Pleasant short takes
Old but elegant Christoph Niemann illustrated article about the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Walled In," an animated recreation of the Wall's anatomy. Lovely then-and-now views of Berlin by the Times (see also: reader pictures, five Guardian films). Al Qaeda's magazine division
After a narrow win in the House, the health care bill faces heat, Lieberman in the Senate. Congress is 44 percent millionaires--and Joe Biden has $27,000. In Germany, too many unfortunate events fall on Nov. 9 to observe a holiday on the day the Berlin Wall fell. Contemporary
Photographer and designer Kurt Dietrich Wilberding traveled to Pakistan to capture a more intimate side of life than what’s normally seen in the newspapers.
Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. An entry that took a thousand years. The Golem writes the entry that took a thousand years.
Nicholas Kristof apologizes to Slovenians for comparing terrible U.S. health care to Slovenia's fine system. Latest F.B.I. push into hedge-fund crimes brings charges against 14. Abu Mazen bowing out from the Palestinian Authority: desperate tactic or a refusal to be kicked around? Army psychiatrist,
Brilliant director and raconteur Altman gets the biography he deserves.
Abhay Khosla is a regular contributor to The Savage Critics, a review of comic books. He’s made a foray into writing comics, and his absurdist, scatalogical adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula has garnered internet notoriety. Khosla also self-publishes Twist Street, an anthology of comics and other writing.
