Cover to Cover
Atlantic, The, June, 2006 by Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwarz
Current Affairs
The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward (HarperCollins) The former secretary of state muses on the intersection of religion and foreign policy.
The Sack of Rome by Alexander Stille (Penguin Press) Silvio Berlusconi, the author argues, is part Bill Gates, part Rupert Murdoch, part George Steinbrenner—and almost entirely awful.
Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra (FSG) A travelogue covering Bollywood, Afghanistan, Nepal, and points in between.
The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press) An outspoken Dutch-Somali politician makes the case for women’s rights and democracy within Islam.
U.S. HISTORY
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll (North Carolina) Both the Union and the Confederacy thought God was on their side. Something had to give.
When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan (Viking) How family rivalry, the Titanic, and the ...