Witnessing Germany Witnessing Germany
Eric Weinberger reviews The Healing Wound: Experiences amd Reflections on Germany, 1938–2001, by Gitta Sereny.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Weinberger
Bush’s Globalized NATO Bush’s Globalized NATO
As envisioned by the Administration, it's unilateralism with a multilateral face.
Dec 7, 2001 / Feature / Sherle R. Schwenninger
Letter From Ground Zero: December 6, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: December 6, 2001
With the Taliban engaged in Afghanistan, where will the US now train its sights?
Dec 7, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
Hymn to Necessity Hymn to Necessity
With a chain saw and axe, we've spent a long Morning cutting up a sycamore the storm Brought down. For all twelve years we've lived here, It has shaded over our kitchen window, Upheld the various tire swings and feeders, The candle-lit rice paper Japanese lanterns, And even, on one occasion, one corner Of a straw-hooped canopy for a wedding. So borne in mind, we've come to find that, Rinsing our dishes in the sink at lunch, The clearing it leaves over-brims itself And turns what's not there outside in, But how good the sun feels in its absence, And how like absence to surprise us this way.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sherod Santos
Holocaust Imponderables Holocaust Imponderables
Paul Reitter reviews Essays on Hitler's Europe, by István Deák.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Community Values Community Values
Allison Xantha Miller reviews The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia, by Rod Janzen, and Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center,...
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Allison Xantha Miller
Press Watch Press Watch
Cable news peddles a soft-shoe rendition of what matters on the global stage, with certain exceptions.
Dec 7, 2001 / Michael Massing
Letter From London Letter From London
Europe and the United States have begun to follow diverging scripts on the war.
Dec 7, 2001 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan
Static Electricity Static Electricity
Stuart Klwans reviews two films: In the Bedroom, by Todd Field, and The Man Who Wasn't There, by the Coen brothers.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Wars Without End Wars Without End
Now that the Taliban is on the run, the 'war on terror' broadens its scope.
Dec 7, 2001 / Michael T. Klare