October 2006 - The American Mag

Map of the Human Heart

Romance rule 101: Take time out to make love on a barrage balloon.

American interventionism wants to tease David from Michelangelo's marble.

Ever wondered about corpses from the insect perspective? Crace reverses field to recreate the lost life of the dead.

The Department of Historical Fallacy was the brainchild of pamphleteer I.F. Stone — and my father.

Part comedy of manners, part detective story, Pessl's delight yins and yangs to the delight of adolescence and sarcasm.

The fight in Iraq was dictated by Washington political infighting, according to Bob Woodward.

Dad's unstable, mom's mentally on the lam, kids are going nowhere fast. But it all counts.

Worth it for Ralph Fiennes. How Weisz picked up an Oscar is anyone's guess.

Overwrought (Dame) Judy Dench and (semi-Dame) Cate Blanchett do not a movie make.

Philip Seymour Hoffman eats so much scenery there's nothing much left.

My plumber, a part-time Roman pastry chef, is vacationing with his German Shepard called Horatio.