Reckoning in Guatemala Reckoning in Guatemala
The recent release of the report of the Historical Clarification Commission in Guatemala has injected new energy into a process that has been faltering since the signing of the D...
Mar 4, 1999 / David Holiday
Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel
It's characteristic of Erick Zonca's extraordinary first feature, The Dreamlife of Angels, that we never learn how Isa got that scar across her right eyebrow.
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Kazan and the Bad Times Kazan and the Bad Times
Dalton Trumbo, a militant blacklisted screenwriter and novelist, commenting on the fifties struggle against government attempts to throttle the American left, said that in that b...
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur Miller
On the Dismissal of Ken Bode On the Dismissal of Ken Bode
'Cause Washington Week in Review Had made insufficient ado, A jazzy new boss Gave Bode the toss, Not knowing a storm would ensue.
Mar 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Partisan’s Review A Partisan’s Review
In A Partisan View, one of the many memoirs in which score-settling refugees from the glory days of the anti-Stalinist, pro-Modernist quarterly bite each other on their kneecap...
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Sanctions as Siege Warfare Sanctions as Siege Warfare
The continuing American bombing of Iraq has drawn attention away from the international debate over economic sanctions against Baghdad and their toll on the Iraqi people.
Mar 4, 1999 / Feature / Joy Gordon
Remember the Alamo, Part II Remember the Alamo, Part II
On the fourth of August last year in San Antonio, the Alamo rumbled.
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bárbara Renaud González
Spice Grrrl Spice Grrrl
On a trip to Russia in 1995 I was told by the young writers I met there that when a certain famed Soviet novelist returned to his native land, he was an offensive anachronism to th...
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Eileen Myles
HOPE for Africa HOPE for Africa
For more information on HOPE for Africa and Jesse Jackson Jr.'s views, see www.jessejacksonjr.org.
Feb 25, 1999 / Jesse Jackson Jr.
The ‘Nightmare Scenario’ The ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Y2K is coming, ready or not. Right now, mostly not.
Feb 25, 1999 / Feature / Kevin Sanders