The New Republic

Edward N. Luttwak is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Harvard University Press). Making War to Keep Peace By Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (HarperCollins, 384 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>

Moliere Sony Pictures Classics My Best Friend IFC Films Naming NUmber Two Cyan Pictures Nearly ten years ago, when Shakespeare in Love came along, I felt that the more the viewer knew about Will's life, the more enjoyable the picture would be. The screenwriters, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, of course knew that the hero of their passionate escapade was in fact a married man with a family back home-- and the viewer who also knew it could, like the authors, get an extra charge of chuckle and spree. READ MORE >>

Are exitways for the Soul-- and so the eyes half in awe, half-dazed to house so great a magnanimity never close. Rock god with your look of surprise. Be calm. The Soul peers out but rarely goes. By Geri Doran READ MORE >>

Ingrid D. Rowland is based in Rome at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. History of the Art of Antiquity By Johann Joachim Winckelmann Translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave (The Getty Research Institute, 446 pp., $67.) READ MORE >>

As the seventh and final installment in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series hits bookstore shelves this weekend, the frenzy over the young magician and his chums appears set to reach even more spectacular heights. Scholastic, Harry Potter's U.S. publisher, ordered a first-run printing of 12 million copies, which may be the largest in world history. The series has already sold 325 million copies worldwide and been translated into 66 languages. And the Harry Potter films--the fifth of which was released last weekend--have grossed more than $3.8 billion globally. READ MORE >>

Don DeLillo's new book is not a 9/11 novel but a 9/11 short story, or perhaps a 9/11 poem. READ MORE >>

The Road By Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf, 241 pp., $24) READ MORE >>

Hatred’s homicidal. Hitler knows. He makes what most men mean by hate a tepid sentiment, though at the time, no one seemed inclined to notice, and I wondered, When will my Hungarians awaken? I waited for the Jews to rouse themselves. But only slowly were they moved to anger; even then most merely said, “depose the madman.” Moderation’s suicide. A whimper while the butcher spreads fresh paper. Even in translation in the Times, he aims READ MORE >>

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil By Philip Zimbardo (Random House, 551 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>

The Ministry of Special CasesBy Nathan Englander (Alfred A. Knopf, 339 pp., $25) READ MORE >>