What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare I have been on something of a Shakespeare comedy jag over the past months; I laughed all the way from Columbus, Ohio, to New York...
May 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Afghan Victims Deserve US Support Afghan Victims Deserve US Support
When Congress contemplates the upcoming 2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill, there's a small item that should be added to the budget: $20 million to help the Afghan people who w...
May 3, 2002 / Medea Benjamin and Jason Mark
No-Risk Electioneering No-Risk Electioneering
A news photograph of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in a green pagaree, an ornamental turban, was proof enough that the somewhat dapper and, perhaps, truly disinterested ge...
May 3, 2002 / Andy McCord
Letters Letters
NEW LIFE FOR DORMANT BOOKS New York City As a longtime admirer of André Schiffrin's publishing programs, I was disappointed by a conspicuous omission ...
May 2, 2002 / Our Readers
The Wonder Years The Wonder Years
Since this is going to be a story about sex and children, let's start with a bit of groping in the priests' chamber. I must have been 12. My confederates and I, all suited out ...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski
Melville at Sea Melville at Sea
In 1851, when the 32-year-old Herman Melville published his masterpiece Moby-Dick, he was already known as a man who'd consorted with cannibals. His first book, Typee: A Peep at P...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple
For Which We Stand For Which We Stand
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has been traveling around the country recently as part of a nationwide post-9/11 effort to promote debate about civic values in schools and co…
May 2, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs The Saudis and Their Oil Rigs
(Sung to the tune of "The Farmer and the Cowman" from Oklahoma!) The Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. Oh, the Saudis and their oil rigs are our friends. They...
May 2, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Oprah Learns Her Lesson Oprah Learns Her Lesson
Is this it? The end of the Oprah Book Club as we know it? It's Thursday, April 4, at approximately 3:45 pm. In less than twenty-four hours, virtually everyone in America will ...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Rooney
Listing Left, Listing Right Listing Left, Listing Right
Devotees of "balanced," "objective," "fair" and "evenhanded" nonfiction--well, they be hurtin' in these early days of the twenty-first century. Enough, perhaps, to demand that sel...
May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano