Geoff Dyer’s Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction

The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism

V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write

The Behavioral Economics of Christmas

How Europe Earned Its Nobel Peace Prize

The Rise of Russia’s Gun Nuts

The Myth of Second-Term Failure

Die, Filibuster, Die

The Ecstasy and Agonies of a Permanent Democratic Majority

The False Promise of Kickstarter

Eight Ways Obama Can Jam Through His Agenda Without Congress

Putting the President on the Couch

Keep Erskine Bowles Away from Treasury

The Campaign to Steal Ohio

The Critic Wall Street Loves to Lunch With

Why the Taliban Shot the Schoolgirl

Growing Up Romney

The Novel That Frightened Hamas and the Arab League

Generation Whine

Dante’s Vita Nova