Naipaul’s World by Philip Gourevitch The distinguished writer V.S. Naipaul opens his new book, A Way in the World1—it is his 22nd—with a brief “Prelude”…
A Dissent on “Schindler's List&rdquo by Philip Gourevitch Moviegoers are by now accustomed to the brief warnings attached to ratings in newspaper reviews: “nudity,” “violence,” “language,” or that…
The Crown Heights Riot & Its Aftermath by Philip Gourevitch Early one evening during the riot in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in August 1991, I stopped in at…
The Death of an American Jewish Community, by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon by Philip Gourevitch It is an old story, oft-lamented and oft-repeated: the mainstream of American Jewish life no longer runs down the tight,…
The Jeffries Affair by Philip Gourevitch One afternoon last August, the columnist Murray Kempton of Newsday stood on a street corner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, discussing…
