Gleaners Over Gladiators Gleaners Over Gladiators
During the false calm that descends between the announcement of Oscar nominations and the bad-TV night of their awards, the smug nominees are routinely re-released to a presumably...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Auschwitz: The Counterlife Auschwitz: The Counterlife
There is a brief but arresting passage in Primo Levi's 1947 classic memoir Survival in Auschwitz (originally titled If This Is a Man) about a French Jewish inmate he identifies...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence N. Powell
My Nike Media Adventure My Nike Media Adventure
E-mail: more powerful than corporate ads.
Mar 22, 2001 / Feature / Jonah Peretti
The Balkan DU Cover-Up The Balkan DU Cover-Up
Keeping the lid on the truth about Kosovo.
Mar 22, 2001 / Feature / Robert James Parsons
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
"Ishall never be able to forget," writes Christopher Hitchens of the poems of the slain Wilfred Owen, "the way in which these verses utterly turned over all the furniture of my mi...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Drowned and the Unsaved The Drowned and the Unsaved
He jumped, of course. But also he was pushed. And when Primo Levi, on "a sudden violent impulse," threw himself down three flights of stairwell in the Art Nouveau apartment hou...
Mar 22, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
In the Place of Nations In the Place of Nations
Big Pharma's dark underside.
Mar 22, 2001 / Feature / John le Carré
In Fact… In Fact…
'FREELANCE' DOESN'T MEAN FOR FREE The case of Tasini v. New York Times, which the Supreme Court will hear soon, turns on technical language in copyright law, but it has raised...
Mar 22, 2001 / The Editors
The Nation Indicators The Nation Indicators
Click here to read "Wealth Report," the latest installment of Doug Henwood's quarterly Nation column "Indicators" in PDF format. Acrobat Reader required.
Mar 22, 2001 / Doug Henwood
Zapatistas on the March Zapatistas on the March
Many compared it to marching through a dream. After seven years under siege by 70,000 Mexican Army troops in the jungles and highlands of Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberat...
Mar 22, 2001 / Al Giordano