Readings

Doris Lessing rarely behaved the way others would have liked her to. And yet many of Lessing's eulogists are missing the point why.

Fifty years after the killing of John F. Kennedy mass terrorism has largely replaced targeted murder as both the defining political act and cultural preoccupation of our times. A look back, from Dallas to Sarajevo, at what the assassin has meant to us.

Karyn Kupcinet, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Mary Pinchot Meyer had little in common in life. In death, however, they share one particular indignity: having their untimely ends overshadowed by the ever-churning John F. Kennedy conspiracy machine.