Letter From an Israeli Jail
Dear Friends,
Print Magazine
November 18, 2002 Issue
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Editorial
Endgame in Korea
On a sparkling Indian summer day fifteen years ago, I was waiting in front of the Pyongyang Hotel with a British documentary producer.
Paul Wellstone
Patti Smith scanned the thousands of antiwar demonstrators who filled Washington the day after the death of Paul Wellstone and reflected on the enormous loss of the Minnesot...
Column
Theories of Relativity
During one pleasant dinner aboard the Nation cruise, one of my tablemates told an amusing story about Einstein giving a lecture in which he stated that he expected th...
Letters
Books & the Arts
What Would Jesus Do?
It's easy to find fault with Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott's sixth novel.
Letting Out the (War) Dogs
They say that war is hell, and Chris Hedges shows us how and why. Hedges's War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning painfully and profoundly illustrates how violent confl...
Excursions in the Real World
Why is so much fiction written in our language and why is so much of what is written of so little consequence?
Taslima’s Pilgrimage
"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....
In Our Orbit
"Ifavor unconditional withdrawal from the territories," says a former head of Israel's security service, rather starkly, given his background. It's from an interview in this...
In Cold Type
Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many w...
Prosody in Motion
As you are no doubt aware, First Lady Laura Bush is a former teacher and has a master's degree in library science. This is all to the good.
Sociobiology and You
If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, b...
