Books & the Arts

In Cold Type In Cold Type

Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many ways...

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Mr. Feiffer Regrets Mr. Feiffer Regrets

Cartoonist Jules Feiffer dropped a pinpoint protest on First Lady Laura Bush's National Book Festival on October 12 in Washington.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jules Feiffer

Rockin’ in the Free World Rockin’ in the Free World

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

More Bitter Fruit More Bitter Fruit

Six years ago, in 1996, the government of Guatemala and the guerrilla groups it had fought bitterly for thirty-six years signed an ambitious set of peace accords.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Schröder’s Kulturkampf Schröder’s Kulturkampf

Coming as it did in the final weeks of a precarious re-election campaign, incumbent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's resolute "No" to German participation in any US-le...

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hugh Eakin

Love, Sandler Style Love, Sandler Style

Although I'm mad for Paul Thomas Anderson's new picture, Punch-Drunk Love, I also suspect it's made me a little crazy.

Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

“It’s hard to imagine a more boring book” than Robinson Crusoe, declares Gilles Deleuze, “it’s sad to see children still reading it.

Oct 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Sandy McCroskey

Prairie Home Companion Prairie Home Companion

When the University of Nebraska Press sent my review copy of the Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees with a note asking that I please accept the book with the compliments of ...

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kathy Rooney

The Culture Blockade The Culture Blockade

The Bush Administration seems to be gunning to make history as the first great unilateralist government of the twenty-first century.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter

Jerusalem Calling Jerusalem Calling

On his new album, country-rocker Steve Earle lets politics infuse his music.

Oct 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

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