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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

Enron’s Rise and Fall Enron’s Rise and Fall

Enron's collapse is a perfect illustration of deregulation and capitalism without a conscience.

Dec 7, 2001 / William Greider

In Defense of ‘Just War’ Thinking In Defense of ‘Just War’ Thinking

The only acceptable purpose of war is to restore peace on a more durable basis.

Dec 7, 2001 / Feature / Richard Falk

Reaping the Whirlwind Reaping the Whirlwind

As Washington casts its glance on the Israel-Palestine situation, the usual aspersions against Palestinians are uttered again.

Dec 7, 2001 / The Editors

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