Fighting for the Soul of Globalization Fighting for the Soul of Globalization
As Sarah Anderson explains in a Nation web report, the outcome of the Miami trade talks represents a major failure for the Bush Administration. After nine years of insisting that...
Nov 21, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Face-Saving and Bridge-Building in Miami Face-Saving and Bridge-Building in Miami
Media reports out of the Miami trade talks this week will no doubt feature images of our carrot-topped lead negotiator, Robert Zoellick, locked in toothy handshakes with Latin ...
Nov 20, 2003 / Feature / Sarah Anderson
Ears Wide Open Ears Wide Open
It's a cliché to say that an artist draws his power from his contradictions, but the lives of the great composers provide easy grist for the mill.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Platt
Growing Up All Wrong Growing Up All Wrong
Martin Amis is the most condescended-to novelist of his time. He is also one of the most literate, funny, quotable and (this the condescenders never neglect to mention) talente...
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Art Therapy Art Therapy
While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived--barely--a head-on collision with another car.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Mystic Poet Mystic Poet
Most biographies of literary figures are a wonderful substitute for actually having to read the work.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
Phantom of the White House Phantom of the White House
"We now live in a culture that's hyperaware of the construction and manipulation of images in politics," David Greenberg writes in Nixon's Shadow.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
The Foreign Correspondent The Foreign Correspondent
How we miss Martha Gellhorn, and how we need her right now!
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Neal Ascherson
A Soldier’s Story A Soldier’s Story
In the annals of American politics Winning Modern Wars is an unusual book.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Frances FitzGerald
The Name of Love The Name of Love
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett