Spike’s Season Spike’s Season
In Summer of Sam, Spike Lee has made a small, shapely drama about two young Italian-American couples in the Bronx.
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains
It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon
Corporate Greenhouse Corporate Greenhouse
This book is aimed at business executives, but political reporters may have to read it too, now that Republican front-runner George W. Bush has decided that global warming is re...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Hertsgaard
Scandalocracy Scandalocracy
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert Dallek
Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney
Natural Born Killers Natural Born Killers
It didn't take long for the press to connect 21-year-old white-supremacist multikiller Benjamin Smith with the all-purpose explanation du jour: violent entertainment, in this ca...
Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Wreck of the Primary Campaign The Wreck of the Primary Campaign
(A Republican Sea Chantey)
Jul 8, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Meanwhile, in Iraq… Meanwhile, in Iraq…
NATO's nightly airstrikes against Yugoslavia have ceased, but the periodic Anglo-American bombing of Iraq continues.
Jul 8, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
The Other Y2K Crisis The Other Y2K Crisis
The presidential election is sixteen months away, but candidates are already fanning out across the land, garnering dollars and media exposure.
Jul 8, 1999 / Stephen Gillers
Ulster Must Not Say No Ulster Must Not Say No
Northern Ireland's peace process faces its gravest crisis since George Mitchell negotiated the Good Friday accord--graver even than after last summer's bombing in Omagh by a sma...
Jul 8, 1999 / The Editors