A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness
A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Terry Tempest Williams
Fighting the Art Bullies Fighting the Art Bullies
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner
Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.
Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen
Innocents Abroad Innocents Abroad
When people label a film "great," the usual effect is to close off a discussion that ought to be opening.
Nov 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Effect on His Campaign of the Release of George W. Bush’s College Transcript The Effect on His Campaign of the Release of George W. Bush’s College Transcript
Obliviously on he sails, With marks not quite as good as Quayle's.
Nov 11, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Son’s Own Story A Son’s Own Story
If you are looking for a piece of new evidence that will finally vindicate or convict Alger Hiss with certainty, you won't find it in Tony Hiss's poignant father-son memoir, A Vi...
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jack Gelber
A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism
To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.
Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield
The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas The ‘Right’ Books and Big Ideas
Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and her husband, Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom, would like to thank the John M.
Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Buchanan Inc. Buchanan Inc.
Research assistance for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Nov 4, 1999 / Feature / Monte Paulsen
California’s Gulag on Trial California’s Gulag on Trial
Welcome to Corcoran State Prison, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Joaquin Valley; built at a cost of $271.9 million on what was once Tulare Lake, home of the Tachi ...
Nov 4, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn