Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Kurdish Delight Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame Nina Simone: Lit by a Sacred Flame
To listen to her voice was to be hijacked by its power.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Bird on a Wire Bird on a Wire
I didn't have to wait long for Ziad, the plumber, to come to my house. It had been a year since the current Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000, and unemployment w...
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh
The Intuitionist The Intuitionist
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow
Labor’s Cold War Labor’s Cold War
Freshly unearthed documents may force the AFL-CIO to face up to past betrayals.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Inverted Totalitarianism Inverted Totalitarianism
How the Bush regime is effecting the transformation to a fascist-like state.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / Sheldon Wolin
Now They Tell Us Now They Tell Us
With Baghdad conquered, the fog of prewar has started to clear.
May 1, 2003 / Feature / David Corn
Fear and Its Discontents Fear and Its Discontents
I n March for my online column "Ask Dr.
May 1, 2003 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Now that the regime of Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, the Bush Administration, like a submarine that, having successfully sunk one ship, resurfaces its periscope to find o...
May 1, 2003 / Jonathan Schell