Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go? Vienna: Waltz or Go-Go?
Exile is the best school of dialectics. --Bertolt Brecht Peter Gay emigrated from Germany when he was a teenager and work...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
$hotgun Weddings $hotgun Weddings
What would the government have to do to convince you to get married when you otherwise wouldn't? More than pay you $80 a month, I'll bet, the amount Wisconsin's much-ballyhooed "...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Court rise!" begins D.D. Guttenplan's courtroom thriller The Holocaust on Trial. "With the clerk's shout we stop talking and struggle to our feet. David Irving v. Penguin Books ...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Meaning of Muhammad The Meaning of Muhammad
My first memory of Muhammad Ali is from February 1964 in Miami's funky Fifth Street gym, just after the Beatles had departed from a memorable photo shoot. Ali was still in...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jack Newfield
Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits
On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...
Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing
2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Lauterbach
The Hollywood Three The Hollywood Three
When The Majestic was about to be released--it's the movie, you will recall, in which Jim Carrey plays a blacklisted screenwriter who suffers from amnesia--someone asked me to to...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Three Poems Three Poems
* Zero built a nest In my navel. Incurable Longing. Blood too-- From violent actions It's a nest belonging to one But zero uses it And its pleasure is its ow...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Fanny Howe
For Her Own Good For Her Own Good
With the "family cap," the state says to welfare moms: no more babies!
Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Karen Houppert
Divide and Misrule Divide and Misrule
One of the old school of the British colonial service, a man with the irresistible name of Sir Penderel Moon, wrote a book about the end of empire and titled it Divide and Quit. At...
Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens