What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
Secret societies are manna for conspiracy theorists, and few are more secret or more conspiracy-nourishing than Yale's Skull and Bones.
Dec 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
Quiet in Hollywood Quiet in Hollywood
The Quiet American, which recently opened for a two-week run in a couple of theaters in New York and Los Angeles, illustrates just how far Hollywood self-censorship has gone in...
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
The New Apartheid The New Apartheid
Ashwin Desai's "We Are the Poors" is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Klein
‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’ ‘Obscure as That Heaven of the Jews’
In the rabbi's parable a lame one climbs Onto a blind one's shoulders and together They take the fruit of the garden of the Lord.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pinsky
Rethinking the Movement Rethinking the Movement
As any casual observer of mega-bookstore shelves knows, the history of the modern civil rights movement is a well-studied field.
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Arnesen
Blowin’ in a New Wind Blowin’ in a New Wind
Ani DiFranco
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer’s Ward
Here where everyone forgets everything, including where they are or what they are fighting to remember,
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
The Call of the Junco Bird The Call of the Junco Bird
An English woman I've never met calls to read me her new poem about the little Texas junco bird whose cry sounded to the early settlers
Nov 26, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Edward Hirsch
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls "Femicons" (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cath...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams