Jamie Malanowski

How a million surveillance cameras in London are proving George Orwell wrong.

A Michael Moore–like British journalist investigates the world’s top soft-drink maker.

Searching, futilely, for the Super Bowl’s deeper meaning.

ast year, Ken Silverstein, an investigative reporter and the Washington editor of Harpers magazine, lit upon a splendid idea: he would pose as the representative of a fictitious British investment firm whose huge holdings in the energy-rich, diabolically ruled Turkmenistan had inspired the company, the opaquely named Maldon Group, to spruce up the image of […]

hey are male and female, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, legislator and executive, insider and publicity hound. They are Boxer and Gingrich, Libby and Clarke, Carter and Cheney and Mikulski and Perle, and to their corpus of earnest yet cynical, idealistic yet worldly, not-all-that-bad-but-never-quite-that-good novels, please add Dark Horse by Ralph Reed, the former […]

n Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker explains the world’s long, terrible spiral into the cataclysm that was the Second World War. It is a pointillist’s history of the march to war, drawing on a vast number of speeches, memoirs, diaries, newspaper and magazine articles, and other […]

full moon rose over the backstretch of Charlotte Motor Speedway the night of NASCAR’s 1992 all-star race …” is the rather melodramatic way Liz Clarke begins the first line of the first paragraph of the first chapter of One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation. The good news is that this hoary lunar invocation […]

his summer I was a guest on a radio show in Washington where I had been invited to talk about my new novel, a political satire. The host asked me to read a passage where the members of Congress were described as “535 egoists superglued to corporate interests who get to kick around the great […]

rognostication is a fool’s game, but I would bet the farm that in 2009 and 2010, the best-seller lists will be frequently crowned by tell-all books about the Bush presidency. The administration’s fervor for secrecy has ensured that there will be a large inventory of stories for the newly loose-lipped to share. More importantly, the […]

Is it a vain, demanding, aggrandizing god who demands a whole day every week be devoted to him? Or is it a modest, self-effacing god who wants just one days worship every seven, and lets poor mortals get off their knees and go to work the other six? Is it an abundant, generous planet that […]