Jobs, Justice–Joy Jobs, Justice–Joy
The drinks were pouring, the flesh was pressing and a "dream team" of brassy, bluesy, soul and salsa players out to affiliate San Antonio's Tejano bands with the American Federat...
Mar 4, 1999 / JoAnn Wypijewski
Soul Survivor of Auschwitz Soul Survivor of Auschwitz
During a wide-ranging conversation I had with Primo Levi in his home in Turin in the summer of 1985, two years before his death, I asked him what effect Auschwitz had on him as a...
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Motola
Re: Juanita Broaddrick Re: Juanita Broaddrick
We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978.
Mar 4, 1999 / Katha Pollitt
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