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Olmert
& Israel: The Change
By Amos Elon
Israel under Ehud
Olmert is not what it was under Ariel Sharon, at least in tone. Sharon was a
soldier who spent much of his life fighting the Arabs. Olmert is a suave
corporate lawyer, a deal maker, a political operator. Sharon supported the
"Greater Israel" movement. Olmert's idea of Israel is not the replay of a
biblical vision but a secular modern state with a booming economy, integrated
into global commerce and closely linked to Europe. This does not mesh well with
what God and Abraham discussed in the Bronze Age.
A
Movie That Matters
By Anne Applebaum
On the
Oscar-nominated film Katyn, directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Will
to Live
By Diane Johnson and John F. Murray
On
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff.
The
Born Rebel Artist
By John Golding
On Gustave
Courbet, an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, and the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.
On
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
By Joan Didion and Darryl
Pinckney
Blogs
By
Sarah Boxer
On We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our
Culture by John Rodzvilla, and nine other books.
The
'Problem of Evil' in Postwar Europe
By Tony Judt
On
the Democrats
By Frank Rich
Plus: Claire Messud on William Trevor, Alan Hollinghurst on
Henry James, Pankaj Mishra on Burma, Richard Lewontin on Stephen Jay Gould,
James McPherson on the Civil War, and more.
Table
of Contents
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New issue, Volume 55, Number 2 · February 14, 2008