Books

Robert Kaplan is a professional downer. We are lucky to have him, but should be prepared to look beyond his hopeless worldview — its just blind idealism in reverse, and just as dangerous.

Kurt Vonnegut's final book is a collection of short fiction from the 1950's. It goes down easy, but is likely to form a Kilgore Trout's parakeet sized lump in your soul.

Richard Rorty has long wanted the academic Left to pull its head out of its ass and get in touch with mainstream America. His latest book points the way.

The last thing The Onion needs is more effusive praise, but I'll just say this anyway: Our Dumb Century is a flat-out brilliant, milk-spurting-out-of-your-nose tour de force of razor blade studded, dangerously informed wrecking ball humor. There, it's out.

Bruce Lee made four awful movies and died, and yet he fascinates all over the world. Davis Miller explores why in a new book.

Britain's greatest living journalist unmasks the Third Way.

Gary Webb of the San Jose Mercury News first published a series of articles connecting the CIA to Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers. His new book, Dark Alliance tells the whole story. You won't believe it, even thought you know it's true!

For those too young to remember the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the name tends to evoke an awkward admixture of myth and reality. With the November publication of Seymour Hersh's exhaustively researched and brilliantly executed 450-page revisionist analysis "The Dark Side of Camelot" you can loose the rose colored glasses.