Within months of the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon held a special screening of the film Battle of Algiers, supposedly to show how and why France failed in its struggle against Algerian urban guerilla warfare and terrorism. Later, others wondered about the film’s depiction of torture and its impact on American policy in light of […]
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“It’s really a very interesting time.” So a geophysicist from the University of Alaska tells Elizabeth Kolbert as she visits his study of the permafrost in Alaska. That “interesting time” is the global warming taking place on the planet. Kolbert expanded a three-part series she wrote for New Yorker magazine into Field Notes from a […] The thought of a John Updike novel pondering America’s post-9/11 angst may lead to a belief that the world is beginning to see the 9/11 literary canon so many people seem to desire. While post-9/11 America sets the stage for Updike’s 22nd novel, Terrorist, let’s hope it is a step along the way to that […] Why do they hate us? That’s a question many Americans have asked, particularly since Sept. 11, 2001. There is no simple answer. And while John Tirman’s 100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World may not be specifically intended to address that question, it certainly is a step toward some comprehension of America’s current stature […] What is it that makes a person like one book and dislike a similar one? That imponderable arose when I read Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End. I recently praised how Charlie Stross explored the Singularity in Glasshouse. Well, Vernor Vinge is not only credited with popularizing the concept, it has been a common theme in his […] |
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