Margaret Thatcher

Turning His Back on the Exotic, A Novelist Explores Home Turf

David Mitchell
Miriam Berkley
David Mitchell

Black Swan Green is exactly what one wanted from David Mitchell, whose first three novels have been  read more »

A Legacy of Lessons From the I.R.A.'s War

Tony Blair.
Hai Knafo
Tony Blair.

More than 30 years after firing its first shots, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army h  read more »

A Legacy of Lessons From the I.R.A.’s War

Tony Blair.
Hai Knafo
Tony Blair.

More than 30 years after firing its first shots, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army h  read more »

Plutocrats in Thatcher's Day-A Loving, Scathing Inventory

The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. Bloomsbury, 438 pages, $24.95.  read more »

Debating Whether Murder is Murder

The Bush administration's plan to try terrorist suspects before military tribunals has inspired thou  read more »

Blair's Victory Gives Democrats a Model

Americans pay scarce attention to our own democraticprocesses, let alone those taking place in other  read more »

Politics Bites Back on Streets of Seattle

For years, the author and columnist Richard Reeves has been writing that the great change in America  read more »

The Director Is Rarely a She

A recent retrospective of woman-directed films at the Brooklyn Academy of Music prompted the usual e  read more »