• What was so great about Catherine?

    The Russian empress remains fascinating not because she attempted sex with a horse, but for expanding her empire, squashing her enemies and acting like, well, a man.
    By Laura Miller February 13, 2007

  • Herbivore vs. carnivore

    Are vegetarians the moral, peace-loving, cruelty-free enemies of the meat eater? Or a bunch of kooks living in la-la land?
    By Laura Miller January 25, 2007

  • Ode to joy

    Barbara Ehrenreich turns away from pop sociology to explore the historical oppression of collective happiness in "Dancing in the Streets."
    By Stephen Amidon January 22, 2007

  • Finding "The Lost"

    Salon Book Award winner Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his search for missing relatives, the "overfamiliarity" of the Holocaust, and why we should listen to our elders.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 14, 2006

  • Where have you gone, Edward Abbey?

    His best work celebrated the natural world, free and clear of "the caterwauling of commerce." More than ever, America needs the ornery writer today.
    By Philip Connors October 22, 2006

  • The passion of George W. Bush

    The president doesn't care that he is reviled. He is a martyr, and someday all will see his glory. Meanwhile, he's got Karl doing his dirty work.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 27, 2006

  • The sweetest dream

    A disinherited grandchild of the man who created Sweet'N Low dissects his screwy family -- and the history of fake sugar -- in a winning new book.
    By Christine Smallwood April 13, 2006

  • Knowledge is overrated

    Stephen Colbert takes a stand against history.
    By H.H. February 23, 2006

  • Did Reagan win the Cold War?

    John Lewis Gaddis' history succinctly captures the long faceoff that shaped our world. But his analysis is marred by Reagan worship.
    By Laura Miller January 25, 2006

  • Freedom and equality: Un-American activities

    A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 16, 2006

  • Why myths still matter

    The religious rituals that surrounded them are gone, but we're still drawn to stories that transform the world -- and ourselves.
    By Laura Miller November 16, 2005

  • The new new world

    Charles C. Mann's monumental retelling of pre-Columbian American history, "1491," illuminates the existence of civilizations as populous and sophisticated as those of the European latecomers.
    By Steve Kettmann September 29, 2005

  • Hot and horny for Hitler

    What drew German teens by the millions to the Hitler Youth? The uniforms, the camaraderie, the cultish adoration of Der Fuhrer -- and lots of Aryan sex.
    By Jana Prikryl December 3, 2004

  • Old times there are not forgotten

    John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change.
    By David Talbot November 19, 2004

  • Democrats lost the battle, not the war

    Only people suffering from historical amnesia could believe this election proves that liberalism is dead.
    By Joe Conason November 6, 2004

  • "The Arabs are after our blood"

    Israeli historian and onetime peacenik Benny Morris now says Palestinians don't want peace -- and that all the Arabs should have been driven out of Israel in 1948.
    By Christopher Farah January 23, 2004

  • The greatest week in rock history

    Thirty-four years ago this week, the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Temptations, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Creedence Clearwater all shared top billing on the Billboard album chart. There's never been another lineup quite like it -- and there will never be again.
    By Eric Boehlert December 19, 2003

  • Love letters

    The author of "A Venetian Affair" says we can learn much from the story of 18th century passion between his ancestor and the woman he wasn't allowed to marry.
    By Karen Croft November 4, 2003

  • The seductress

    The author of a new book says if women want to seduce powerful men, their best weapon is brains, not boobs.
    By David Bowman October 31, 2003

  • The sound of one hand slapping

    A new book explores the history of masturbation -- and why the finest minds of the 18th century suddenly freaked out about it.
    By Betsy Andrews May 9, 2003

  • Liberate Iraq's history now!

    The U.S. should seal its commitment to a free Iraq by releasing captured documents and its own archives, so Iraqis can examine their own past.
    By James G. Hershberg April 19, 2003

  • "May prick nor purse never fail you"

    This weird history of two men's sex clubs in 18th century Scotland cries out for Mike Meyers and John Cleese.
    By Douglas Cruickshank April 10, 2002

  • Smoke gets in your eyes

    Cigarette smoking is a metaphor for sex, says the author of a book on tobacco.
    By David Bowman April 3, 2002

  • Love boat

    Errant women on a convict ship to Australia in the 1780s were sexual playthings, potential mothers and sometimes romantic partners -- if they didn't succumb to scurvy first.
    By Janelle Brown March 20, 2002

  • Be still my heart

    The old movie stills were often sexier than the movies they were meant to publicize.
    By David Thomson January 17, 2002
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