Articles

Shmeer the Kids In Shmeer the Kids In

(An Upper East Side Sea Chanty Sung to the tune of 'Blow the Man Down')

Nov 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Election 2002 & You Election 2002 & You

San Jacinto, Calif.

Nov 20, 2002 / Our Readers

A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions

President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- ...

Nov 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care

When the Clinton-Gore administration attempted to reform the nation's approach to financing health care in 1993 and 1994, the one proposal that administration aides always rejecte...

Nov 15, 2002 / John Nichols

Renoir All Over Again Renoir All Over Again

Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you to p...

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Back in the USSR Back in the USSR

The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg

The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack

The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan

On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin

A Sex of One’s Own A Sex of One’s Own

Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

Atop the Volcano Atop the Volcano

Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politics a...

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper

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