Saul Austerlitz Archive
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Sep 09, 2011
The design of the 9/11 memorial is the product of a decade of debate. The result is immediately comprehensible as a place of remembrance and grieving. Read Article Ground Zero's evolution into a meaningful shrine
Sep 08, 2011
In the arts, much has been explored - and left unexplored - about September 11, 2001. Read Article September 11: A decade in response
Aug 05, 2011
Joby Warrick tells the story of a young doctor who penetrated deep inside Al Qaeda, gathering invaluable intelligence for the CIA. But when his American handlers held a reception to recognise his espionage work, a ferocious blast made it clear that they had made a terrible mistake. Read Article From coup to catastrophe: The triple agent
Apr 15, 2011
A ferociously gifted novelist's posthumous, unfinished last work is fanatically devoted to the brain-deadening routine of modern work - and, by extension, American life. Read Article The Pale King: A spellbinding book about mind-numbing boredom
Mar 17, 2011
The Broadway musical version of Spider-Man was meant to be the stage spectacle to end them all. Now, in a perilous tangle of injuries, delayed openings and critical disapproval, it may well prove to be exactly that.
Read Article The web of failure: Spider-Man the Musical
Feb 25, 2011
In Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg attempts to offer a comprehensive analysis of peer pressure but is it all just Gladwell lite? Read Article Power of persuasion: Tina Rosenberg's Join the Club
Jan 21, 2011
From humble beginnings in the run-down boroughs of New York City, hip-hop has become a globe-conquering phenomenon – its beats gracing presidential iPods and its rhymes pored over by noted academics. So has the genre finally come of age? Read Article Grown man business
Dec 03, 2010
The New Yorker's latest 20 Under 40 anthology is filled with tales of American malaise - and proves that a nation's literary identity should not be defined by terms of age. Read Article Collection that shows literature is not just for young
Nov 12, 2010
The story of Raoul Wallenberg bridges the twin horrors of mid-20th-century history, writes Saul Austerlitz. Read Article Alex Kershaw's The Envoy
