Andrew Sullivan is once again horrified by reports of widespread American torture, this time from Amnesty International.
Whatever else this administration has done, whatever other mistakes it has made, this abandonment of long-standing American honor and decency in the military is an unforgivable offense. It is an attack on the meaning of Read MoreThe Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 391 pages, $26.
A little more than 15 years ago, Philip Roth published a slim, peculiar book called The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography, which consisted of a brief letter from “Roth” to his fictional alter ego, Zuckerman; an airbrushed memoir of the author’s first 55 Read More
1) Mr. Roth Meets Mr. Lindbergh
When I got the news that a galley of the new Philip Roth novel was available, I raced down to the Union Square offices of Houghton Mifflin. It was late in the day, so by the time I got there, the offices were closed, but they’d been kind enough Read More
I’m planning to make a dinner reservation soon at One If By Land, Two If By Sea, a restaurant at 17 Barrow Street just off Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. I’m not going for the food; I’m going because the restaurant is in an old carriage house that served for about 55 years as my Read More
A Presidential election is coming on us, and Patrick J. Buchanan is back in New Hampshire-a political swallow returning to his electoral Capistrano.
Pat has become a kind of white man’s Jesse Jackson. You never know whether either of these two mucklemouths mean it, or if they do it because afterwards it kicks up their Read More
