What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
John Berger, best known for the essay collection Ways of Seeing, is not a timid writer. His oeuvre comprises novels, poems, criticism and plays.
Nov 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Trade Ministers Get Out of Dodge Trade Ministers Get Out of Dodge
The final FTAA declaration essentially lays out a road map for a free-trade non-agreement.
Nov 21, 2003 / Feature / Sarah Anderson
The Bubble The Bubble
To Londoners, even many who did not oppose the war, Bush's visit felt like an assertion of absolute, arrogant power.
Nov 21, 2003 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
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