Books & the Arts

On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union

American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

The Fourth Estate’s Estate The Fourth Estate’s Estate

Soon after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the reporter Martha Gellhorn made her way to Dachau. There she interviewed a recently liberated doctor who told her how the Germans im...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder

Not So Pretty Horses, Too Not So Pretty Horses, Too

William Eastlake once gave William Kittredge a piece of advice about writing as a Westerner. Never allow a publisher to put a picture of a horse on the cover of your novel: "Th...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors

Chile Reception Chile Reception

Walking at a good New Yorker's clip, you would need about fifteen minutes to go between Film Forum and the World Trade Center site: a straight shot down Varick Street from thre...

Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. By Anthony Trollope. Oxford. 1,024 pp. $11.95.

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Mourning and Modernism After 9/11 Mourning and Modernism After 9/11

Can function follow form?

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake

The Art of 9/11 The Art of 9/11

Mama, build me a fence!

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero

The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana

Map to Ground Zero Map to Ground Zero

The footprints of clashing interests.

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100

For the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Ce...

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martín Espada

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