On the day that American bombs began dropping on Iraq in March 2003, The New York Times’ Dexter Filkins sped his S.U.V. across the Kuwait border, north toward Baghdad. Unembedded and unencumbered, Mr. Filkins became the byline New Yorkers most began looking for: His intelligent, understated reports from battle zones—“dispatches that whisper,” wrote Jack Shafer Read More
A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby. Riverhead, 333 pages, $24.95.
Suicide is one of those societal ills everyone feels comfortable looking down on: It’s a cop-out, a death for wimps, the unnecessary result of insanity or self-absorption. Even the utterly unreligious will speak of it as a sin.
Still, there are some Read More
J.B.’s 12-year-old daughter wants to go to Fight Club . So does Carrie, the 14-year-old daughter of another friend. Both mothers ignored the request, hoping the film would go away … which it shows every sign of doing. Meanwhile, a number of late-teen and 20-something women report seeing and loving this saga of male bonding Read More
