The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers
A new memoir stirs long-suppressed memories of the “war without a name.”
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
Wollstonecraft to Lady Di Wollstonecraft to Lady Di
Here we go, starting on what promises to be a pleasantly engrossing tour of the landmarks of three centuries of Anglo-American intellectual feminism, guided by a seriously impressi...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Deirdre English
The Professor of Desire The Professor of Desire
When Philip Roth compiles lists of the writers he most admires, Tolstoy never seems to make it. There's Flaubert, Kafka, Bellow--the touchstones. Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Célin...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
Body Count in Kosovo Body Count in Kosovo
Over the past two years, it has become commonplace to read that the casualties among Kosovo Albanians were not sufficiently high to warrant the NATO intervention that put an end-...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Cold Comfort Cold Comfort
They were kidnapped on the street, or summoned to the village square, or lured from home with false promises of work, to be forced into the Japanese military's far-flung, highly ...
May 25, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Secret History of Sex The Secret History of Sex
Once in a while you come across a book that is so original, so persuasive, so meticulously researched and documented that it overrides some of your most taken-for-granted assumpti...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Seaman
Southern Explosure Southern Explosure
Thirty-eight years after the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, two of the four principals are dead, but the issues are still full of life. Thomas Blanton Jr. is ...
May 25, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations Pacifica Management’s Lies and Misrepresentations
A Reply to 'Pacifica Myths and Realities' May 23, 2001
May 24, 2001 / Lyn Gerry
State Outsources Secret War State Outsources Secret War
Best known as a place where the Air Force shoots satellites into orbit, the Eastern Space and Missile Center--just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County--w...
May 23, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest
Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is...
May 22, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer