Reading between the lines.

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• Trojan Woman Was Troy real—and was the author of The Iliad a woman?
  Emily Wilson Dec. 12, 2006
  
• The Year in Books Slate picks the best books of 2006.
  Dec. 7, 2006
  
• True Grit Dave Eggers' new novel about the Lost Boys of Sudan.
  Caroline Moorehead Dec. 5, 2006
  
• Paul Muldoon The poet of giddiness.
  James Longenbach Nov. 28, 2006
  
• The Problem Apostle How Garry Wills rehabilitates Paul.
  Richard Wightman Fox Nov. 20, 2006
  
• How Do You Measure People Skills? The elusive landscape of social intelligence.
  Paul Harris Nov. 13, 2006
  
• History at the Margins Nicholas Lemann's Redemption.
  Edward L. Ayers Nov. 9, 2006
  
• What's up With the Christian Right? The peculiar morphing of American evangelicalism.
  Hanna Rosin Nov. 3, 2006
  
• Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table? An economist's critique of The Omnivore's Dilemma.
  Tyler Cowen Nov. 1, 2006
  
• The Anatomy of Destiny Alice Munro, spinner of fates.
  Judith Shulevitz Oct. 30, 2006
  
• Should We Shut Up About Diversity? A good question, with a cynical answer from Walter Benn Michaels.
  Alan Wolfe Oct. 3, 2006
  
• The Triumph of the Real Daniel Mendelsohn's peculiar argument about the Holocaust and fiction.
  Ruth Franklin Sept. 29, 2006
  
• Blood and Vine Should you read Scott Smith's The Ruins?
  Bryan Curtis Sept. 13, 2006
  
• Thirtysomething Claire Messud and the robust genre of the very-late-coming-of-age novel.
  Katie Roiphe Aug. 28, 2006
  
• Found in Translation Reading the classics with help from the Loeb Library.
  Emily Wilson Aug. 15, 2006
  
• Remembering Iron John When men were men—without irony and Banana Republic.
  Jess Row Aug. 8, 2006
  
• Musketeers Without a Cause Rediscovering the secret core of Dumas' classic.
  Michael Wood July 31, 2006
  
• Taking It to the Streets In Fiasco, Thomas Ricks criticizes the military's performance in Iraq.
  Michael O'Hanlon July 28, 2006
  
• Silence in the Court! Why are liberals urging that the Supreme Court do next to nothing?
  Dahlia Lithwick July 24, 2006
  
• The Wrong Tail How to turn a powerful idea into a dubious theory of everything.
  Tim Wu July 21, 2006
  
• Welcome to The Jungle Does Upton Sinclair's famous novel hold up?
  Karen Olsson July 7, 2006
  
• Cracks in the Christian Ascendancy Why it's too soon to panic about an American theocracy.
  Russell Cobb June 26, 2006
  
• A Million Little Insights The Couplandization of Douglas Coupland.
  Michael Agger May 31, 2006
  
• All the Presidential Schemers What Carlos Fuentes misunderstands about Mexican politics.
  Tina Rosenberg May 1, 2006
  
• The Paradox of Howl The anti-establishment poem's debt to the established past.
  Stephen Burt April 19, 2006
  
• Jesus Nation The never-ending American battle over how to think about Jesus.
  Richard Wightman Fox April 13, 2006
  
• The Election With No Results José Saramago's timely political parable.
  Michael Wood April 10, 2006
  
• The Truth About Marley Should you read the Times best-selling dog book?
  Bryan Curtis April 7, 2006
  
• Not-So-Silent Spring Two new books on the clear and present danger of global warming.
  Rob Nixon April 3, 2006
  
• Doctor Lit Allegra Goodman's Intuition incisively portrays the cut-throat lives of doctors.
  Dr. Jerome Groopman March 1, 2006
  
• Europe vs. Radical Islam Alarmist Americans have mostly bad advice for Europeans.
  Francis Fukuyama Feb. 27, 2006
  
• The Trivial Life Why Jay McInerney should embrace frivolity.
  Blake Bailey Feb. 20, 2006
  
• Family Secrets Maile Meloy's second novel isn't what it seems.
  Ann Hulbert Feb. 16, 2006
  
• Lincoln's Religious Quest Why his faith won't suit either side in the culture wars.
  Richard Wightman Fox Jan. 18, 2006
  
• Underestimating Intelligence Why it's not fair to give the CIA a failing grade.
  Daniel Benjamin Jan. 9, 2006
  
• The Strange Case of Julian Barnes How an author transcended his sources and unleashed magical powers.
  Wendy Lesser Jan. 3, 2006