The Illusion of Inclusion The Illusion of Inclusion
In 1958 John Ashbery sailed for Paris to gather materials for a thesis he intended to write about Raymond Roussel, who at the time was an all-but-forgotten French poet, playwrigh...
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Panegyric for the Plane Tree Fallen on Fifth Avenue Panegyric for the Plane Tree Fallen on Fifth Avenue
At the end of Eighty-eighth, across from the museum and as west as east will take you to the park from Gracie Mansion. Before the lightning brought it down,
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Plumly
Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is?
It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Michael Wood
Subcontinental Homesick Blues Subcontinental Homesick Blues
Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.
Dec 9, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
Lessons for Labor Lessons for Labor
What unions did right--and wrong--in the 2004 election.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / David Moberg
New Power for ‘Old Europe’ New Power for ‘Old Europe’
The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.
Dec 9, 2004 / Feature / Mark Schapiro
Letters Letters
SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS... Washington, DC
Dec 9, 2004 / Our Readers, Jeremy Bernstein, and Bruce Robbins
Guarantee the Right to Vote Guarantee the Right to Vote
As US Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, chaired Tuesday's hearing on irregularities in the presidential voting in Ohio on November 2, the ...
Dec 8, 2004 / John Nichols
Holding Torturers Accountable Holding Torturers Accountable
In a historic effort to hold US officials accountable for acts of torture, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and four Iraqi citizens recently filed a criminal complaint ...
Dec 8, 2004 / Peter Rothberg