Suzy Hansen

  • Destination: Jersey Shore

    Bruce Springsteen may provide the soundtrack to your boardwalk stroll, but great novels by Richard Ford and Frederick Reiken should keep you company on the beach.
    By Suzy Hansen August 3, 2006

  • Why foreign aid doesn't work

    An economist says big ideas to "end poverty" have failed for decades -- and that the West needs to fight the war one village at a time.
    By Suzy Hansen April 5, 2006

  • Laguna biatch

    How a real-life mean girl has become TV's most improbable teen role model.
    By Suzy Hansen November 2, 2005

  • Conversations with mass murderers

    In "Machete Season," 10 Hutu men recall how they enjoyed slaughtering their neighbors with machetes and clubs -- and six years after the Rwanda genocide, feel no guilt.
    By Suzy Hansen July 20, 2005

  • I married a bin Laden

    Osama's former sister-in-law tells all: Secret Saudi lesbian trysts, a husband who ordered her to have abortions, and the magical power of the name bin Laden within the Saudi luxury class.
    By Suzy Hansen July 10, 2004

  • Sex and drugs in hell

    The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
    By Suzy Hansen July 8, 2004

  • The Sopranos' stomping ground

    The world can make fun of New Jersey -- big hair, Bada Bing, Bon Jovi and all -- but natives know who's boss.
    By Suzy Hansen June 4, 2004

  • The military's hazing hell

    Carol Burke, author of "Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High and Tight," talks to Salon about the military's frat-boy culture, how torture and initiation rites are used to transform civilians into soldiers -- and how Abu Ghraib is just a drop in the bucket.
    By Suzy Hansen June 4, 2004

  • The secret history of American literature

    Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history.
    By Suzy Hansen June 3, 2004

  • Twisted sisters

    In her new book, Alexandra Robbins goes undercover as a sorority sister at an anonymous university. What she found was very little sisterhood -- but a lot of hardcore hazing, public humiliation, binge drinking and extreme peer pressure.
    By Suzy Hansen April 14, 2004

  • Dubya's angels

    Laura Flanders talks about her book "Bushwomen," and why the media has given a free pass to Condi Rice, Christie Whitman, Elaine Chao and the other women who've put a pretty face on ugly policies.
    By Suzy Hansen April 12, 2004

  • "We stood by while this happened"

    Author Steve Coll discusses "Ghost Wars," his new book about how the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan, tried to work with the Taliban, and failed to stop Osama bin Laden -- even though terrified CIA agents knew he was about to strike.
    By Suzy Hansen March 3, 2004

  • Tomorrow's news, today!

    The man behind the masked penguin explains what turned him into an avidly political cartoonist, and the "inherent optimism" behind those blistering comic strips.
    By Suzy Hansen August 14, 2003

  • "Nina: Adolescence" by Amy Hassinger

    A family torn apart by tragedy dissolves into abuse and neglect in this creepy, beguiling debut.
    By Suzy Hansen August 2, 2003

  • "A blink of an eye, and a million killed"

    Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
    By Suzy Hansen July 31, 2003

  • Rebel from the yeshiva

    Director Eitan Gorlin on "The Holy Land," his controversial film about a rabbinical student running wild in Jerusalem, and why some Jews don't like its explosive portrait of late-'90s Israel.
    By Suzy Hansen July 22, 2003

  • Taxi! Get me outta here

    In two books by Strawberry Saroyan and Meghan Daum, the young media chick protagonists get chewed up and spit out by New York.
    By Suzy Hansen July 17, 2003

  • For poorer and for poorer

    For young couples trying to start a new life together, the dismal economy means more fighting, postponed weddings -- and less sex.
    By Suzy Hansen June 4, 2003

  • "Everyone is flawed and there are no simple solutions"

    Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur talks about "The Sea," his tempestuous and extraordinary drama of a fishing family's self-destruction.
    By Suzy Hansen May 16, 2003

  • The sins of the mother

    Lionel Shriver discusses her chilling new novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," her fears about motherhood and how Columbine monsters are made.
    By Suzy Hansen May 8, 2003

  • "Someone should just obliterate my country"

    The director of "Afghan Stories" talks about life in the final days of Taliban rule.
    By Suzy Hansen May 7, 2003

  • "It's a catastrophe for tyranny. It's a great day"

    Pro-war liberal Paul Berman celebrates the fall of Baghdad. But the real fight for Iraqi freedom, he warns, lies ahead -- and will take years.
    By Suzy Hansen April 10, 2003

  • Bush is an idiot, but he was right about Saddam

    Paul Berman, one of the most provocative thinkers on the left, has a message for the antiwar movement: Stop marching and start fighting to spread liberal values in the Middle East.
    By Suzy Hansen March 22, 2003

  • Homefront: A new column about life during wartime

    Billboards for Saddam, solace from the folks at Apocalypse-R-Us, plus one woman's story of running into enraged war supporters in the Catskills.
    By Sheerly Avni and Suzy Hansen March 20, 2003

  • The antiwar ad MTV won't air

    Watch it here, and decide if you agree with our ad critics that it's "cool and hip" or "too preachy and self-righteous."
    By Suzy Hansen March 14, 2003
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