Articles

Borges in Another Métier Borges in Another Métier

With Pablo Neruda and Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges set in motion the wave of astonishing writing that has given Latin American literature its high place in our time.

May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini

Texaco on Trial Texaco on Trial

Like virtually everyone else in San Carlos, Ecuador, Hugo Ureña never imagined that danger might lurk in the shiny black liquid that began appearing in the water near his ho...

May 13, 1999 / Feature / Eyal Press

License to Kill in Timor License to Kill in Timor

Allan Nairn was banned from Indonesia and East Timor as a "threat to national security" after he survived the Dili massacre of 1991. Arrested and deported last year and threatened ...

May 13, 1999 / Allan Nairn

Exchange: The News From Pacifica Exchange: The News From Pacifica

Washington, D.C.

May 13, 1999 / Alexander Cockburn, Marc Cooper, and Our Readers

Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian Humanitarian, All Too Humanitarian

Masses of people driven from their homes, murdered, maimed, raped, sent into panicked flight.

May 13, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Nowhere Man, Please Listen Nowhere Man, Please Listen

On April Fool's Day 1989, Leonid Loktev changed without warning into another person.

May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Showdown in Moscow Showdown in Moscow

By dismissing Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and warning that Russia may pull out of the Yugoslav peace talks, Boris Yeltsin has shown again that he will do almost anything to ...

May 13, 1999 / The Editors

The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China The United States Makes a Conditional Apology to China

A pity that our missiles went astray-- The kind of act we'd make a tort of. Sincerely, USA would like to say We're really very sorry, sort of.

May 13, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Protest the War Protest the War

It's time to move from dissent to action: to quickly and vigorously protest the Kosovo war.

May 13, 1999 / The Editors

The Liberals’ Folly The Liberals’ Folly

Liberals in the Democratic Party should withdraw their support for the Kosovo war. So should the Democratic Party.

May 6, 1999 / Tom Hayden

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