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Slate Magazine - Books - Sep 2, 2008
Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is an inspirational story about one man's efforts to boost educational achievement in New York City's Harlem. The book is also a sobering tale of how such good intentions, alone, are …
Slate Magazine - Aug 25, 2008
At first glance, Tom Vanderbilt's study of traffic, Traffic, seems like a perverse idea for a book. Imagine the tired commuter, pulling into his driveway, entering his house, and sitting down to read a chapter about …
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Milton's 400th anniversary.Slate Magazine - Aug 18, 2008 Great art is great not because it enters an academic curriculum, and neither is greatness affirmed by the awarding of prizes or titles. But great is not necessarily a vague term. It can indicate work that penetrates … |
Slate Magazine - Books - Aug 12, 2008
Remember Alar? If you were in the vicinity of a television in the spring of 1989, it's likely you do. Alar was a potentially cancer-causing chemical sprayed on apples, brought to public attention by a high-profile …
Slate Magazine - Books - Aug 11, 2008
Reading between the lines. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Books - Aug 7, 2008
Once upon a time Beijing, like China, knew what it was. It was static, it was poor, but in the minds of its mandarins, it was a brilliant civilization, and it was the center of the world. Peasant revolutions, new …
Slate Magazine - Books - Aug 5, 2008
"My youth began when I was twenty-one. At least, that's when I decided it began. That was when I started to think that all those shiny things in life—some of them might possibly be for me." These opening sentences of …
Slate Magazine - Aug 5, 2008
Making sense of the momentous change taking place in China has never seemed more pressing, or more impossible. Even the most knowledgeable observers of the Middle Kingdom now have a hard time agreeing on where the …
Slate Magazine - Aug 5, 2008
The title seems to promise a timely exposé in the age of the tell-all memoir, on the eve of the Beijing Olympics and China's bid for global openness: The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My …
Slate Magazine - Books - Jul 28, 2008
Can heavy metal music help transform the Middle East? [more ...]