Full Moon Full Moon
Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through. Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
Man Making the Bed Man Making the Bed
Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord, by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
At Work At Work
On slow wings the marsh hawk is patrolling possibility--soaring, sliding down almost to ground level, twisting suddenly at something in the marsh hay or dune grass,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Wrigley
Visions of the Sublime Visions of the Sublime
One of the great benefits conferred by Modernism on our appreciation of traditional painting is that there is little inclination any longer to ascribe optical abnormalities to ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
New York State of Mind New York State of Mind
After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the read...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate
Bush Flunks Schools Bush Flunks Schools
If "no child left behind" meant what it said, it would offer help, not sanctions.
Nov 13, 2003 / Feature / Susan Ohanian
Egypt’s Islamist Dilemma Egypt’s Islamist Dilemma
Militant leaders now preach peace, but they may have won the ideological war.
Beyond Globophobia Beyond Globophobia
Instead of blaming globalization for our economic ills, why not take it over?
Nov 13, 2003 / Feature / Doug Henwood
Lula Raises the Stakes Lula Raises the Stakes
He's challenging US-style globalization.
Nov 13, 2003 / Feature / William Greider and Kenneth Rapoza