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2006 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• Spy vs. Spy

  published September 28, 2006

  Although it’s scarcely a secret, Americans tend to forget that very few of us wanted to fight in World War II. If you think the country... More >>

• Orange Crush

  published August 31, 2006

  The basic story of Ian Buruma’s Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance is fairly well-known.... More >>

• Reuters' Image Problem

  published August 10, 2006

  It’s been a good week for Los Angeles’ most controversial political Web site, Little Green Footballs, widely reviled by some... More >>

• The L.A. Word

  published June 1, 2006

  For a critically acclaimed novelist who has just received the worst notices of her career, A.M. Homes seems remarkably unfazed. Dressed in... More >>

• Hans and Fooligans

  published June 1, 2006

  As a quadrennial sporting event, the World Cup has a single rival: the Summer Olympics. But while the Olympics are bewilderingly diverse and... More >>

• Something to Offend Everyone

  published May 18, 2006

  In a more amusing world, the acid-tongued Taki Theodoracopulos — known simply as Taki — would by now have been the host of a... More >>

• This Is Not Earth Music

  published May 11, 2006

  Tom Verlaine walks into a café out of the winter cold, reeking of tobacco and looking like a man who finds much of life wincingly painful.... More >>

• The Fallaci Code

  published March 16, 2006

  In The Force of Reason, the controversial Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci illuminates one of the central enigmas of our... More >>

• ''Seems never to achieve his potential. Indolent.''

  published February 16, 2006

  There can be few things more likely to induce a state of profound melancholy than looking through one’s old school report cards. That... More >>

• The Butterfly Effect

  published February 16, 2006

  THERE’S A POPULAR SCIENTIFIC THEORY known as “the butterfly effect,” in which a small insect beating its wings in one... More >>

• De Tocqueville, Part Deux

  published January 19, 2006

  Bernard-Henri Lévy, author of the new book American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, is dissatisfied... More >>

• The Adventure of Arthur Conan Doyle

  published January 12, 2006

  In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Love,... More >>