Department Index
Books 2005:
Reading between the lines.
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- Lolita at 50 Is Nabokov's masterpiece still shocking?
Dec. 19, 2005 - The Year in Books Slate picks the best books of 2005.
Dec. 14, 2005 - When History Meets Politics The implicit politics of Sean Wilentz's new book.
Dec. 12, 2005 - Back in Blackface The rehabilitation of "Stepin Fetchit."
Dec. 5, 2005 - Sandra Day O'Connor A new look at the Supreme Court's enigmatic "controlling force."
Nov. 14, 2005 - Beam Me Up, Godly Being Is alien abduction real—or a creation of Hollywood?
Oct. 31, 2005 - Ivory Tower Intrigues The pseudo-meritocracy of the Ivy League.
Oct. 24, 2005 - The Anatomy of Grief Does Didion's memoir do for grief what Styron's did for depression?
Oct. 17, 2005 - The Marriage of Sex and Death The nightmarish vision of Mary Gaitskill.
Oct. 10, 2005 - Wilmerding Shrugged The political ambitions of Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision.
Oct. 3, 2005 - Simon Blackburn The British philosopher's "Truth Wars."
Sept. 30, 2005 - Simon Blackburn The British philosopher's take on truth.
Sept. 29, 2005 - The State of the Church-State Debate Has Noah Feldman come up with a feasible compromise?
Aug. 1, 2005 - Writer on the Couch John Irving's undigested psychodrama.
July 19, 2005 - The Great Brain Is Umberto Eco's new novel about memory really postmodern?
June 27, 2005 - Not-So-Sublime Banality What happened to Nick Hornby?
June 20, 2005 - Devise and Dissent The patriotic, but unpopular, career of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
June 6, 2005 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Francine du Plessix Gray's glamorous, forgetful parents.
May 23, 2005 - 3 Nights in Darkness What Buzz Bissinger's new book fails to see about sportswriting.
May 9, 2005 - The Incredible Shrinking Planet What liberals can learn from Thomas Friedman's new book.
April 18, 2005 - All Together Now: Blame Enron! Kurt Eichenwald's refreshing grasp of complexity.
April 1, 2005 - Brave New World Kazuo Ishiguro's novel really is chilling.
April 1, 2005 - A Day in the Life How critics got Saturday wrong.
March 30, 2005 - Speak, Memory What kind of reader was W. G. Sebald?
March 14, 2005 - Unfair Harvard The real story behind one graduate's gripes.
March 10, 2005 - Harvard Inc. A new book on Lawrence Summers and the crisis of meritocracy.
March 1, 2005 - Girl, Uninterrupted Catcher in the Rye for the age of the organization kid.
Feb. 14, 2005 - Stephen Spender, Toady Was there any substance to his politics and art?
Feb. 7, 2005 - Bland Justice The Supreme Court, now as ever, follows the national consensus.
Jan. 17, 2005 - The Diva of Desperate Housewives Fay Weldon's perverse power.
Jan. 10, 2005


