Magnificent Obsessions Magnificent Obsessions
This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of il...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory
Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War
In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The New Campus Raids The New Campus Raids
On February 26 the small town of Moscow, Idaho, saw more commotion than it had since a truck camper exploded in a vacant lot last September. While the town was still sleeping, ...
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Jungwon Kim
Letter From Baghdad Letter From Baghdad
The failure to provide for postwar needs has deepened distrust of US intentions.
May 15, 2003 / Feature / Steve Negus
Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
We Are the Patriots We Are the Patriots
Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal
Who Framed John Fund? Who Framed John Fund?
So the right-wing journalist John Fund may not be a model citizen, but contrary to the implications of many left journalists and gossip columnists, he's likely not the kind of ...
May 15, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bah, Humbug Bah, Humbug
I wish it had been sex, maybe some of that hot "man on dog" action that Senator Rick Santorum is so keen on chatting about. But let me not be picky.
May 15, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt