Literature
Mr. Lincoln's Washington
The house where the conspirators hatched their heinous plot now serves sushi, and the yard where they were hanged is a tennis court.
April 2003 |
By Christopher Buckley
The Curse of Count Dracula
The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
April 2003 |
By Rudy Chelminski
Journal of the Plague Years
Two courageous pioneers showed how a fearsome scourge could be defeated
April 2003 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Henry Kissinger on Vietnam
Henry Kissinger's new book revisits America's troubled extrication from Indochina
March 2003 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Once Upon a Time
Children's books by celebrities are as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here are our favorites
March 2003 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Dividing the Spoils
In a new book, historian Michael Beschloss re-creates the 1945 Potsdam Conference at which Harry Truman found his presidential voice and determined the shape of postwar Europe
December 2002 |
By Michael Beschloss
Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare
Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
October 2002 |
By Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin
The Limerick is Furtive and Mean...
From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses
September 01, 2002 |
By David Stewart
Astronomy's New Stars
Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens
September 2002 |
By Timothy Ferris
Master of Middle Earth
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance 100 million readers
January 2002 |
By Alina Corday Taylor
October Surprise
Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate
December 2001 |
By Paul Gray
