Thirteen Days of Our Lives Thirteen Days of Our Lives
In the aftermath of the Iran/contra crisis, one of the networks decided to make a docudrama about the life of Ollie North, loosely based on a biography by Ben Bradle Jr. Its prob...
Jan 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Russia’s Potemkin Leader Russia’s Potemkin Leader
Modern Russian history, as taught by Clinton Administration spin doctors and Op-Ed pundits, holds that Boris Yeltsin dismembered the Soviet Union and set Russia on a historic pat...
Jan 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
TROOPS IN THE STREETS Nation contributing editor and radio host Marc Cooper was tossed out of the California State University system for antiwar activities in 1971 by executive ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Behind Mount Rushdie Behind Mount Rushdie
About a year ago, Amit Chaudhuri published in the Times Literary Supplement a panoramic survey of the past century or so of Indian writing and its reception in the West. He obser...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sumana Raychaudhuri
The Führer Furor The Führer Furor
Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
How Stands the Union? How Stands the Union?
In their campaigns for the White House, the major-party candidates--even the one backed by labor--spent little time debating labor-law reform. Nevertheless, the AFL-CIO ha...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Yuletide All the Time Yuletide All the Time
We're sorry, but we do not have permission to present this article on our website. It is an excerpt from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan). © ...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
Dream Notebook Dream Notebook
What will become of these my many lives, abandoned each morning abruptly to their own fates? Of the fox who stopped to look up at me, bright death stippling her muzzle, and...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jane Hirshfield
Dude, Where’s My Klawans? Dude, Where’s My Klawans?
Commenting on the German film Run Lola Run two years ago, The Nation's redoubtable film critic, Stuart Klawans, quoted a character speaking nominally of soccer: "The ball is round...
Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Living Thought of Military Dictatorships The Living Thought of Military Dictatorships
We're sorry, but we do not have permission to present this article on our website. It is an excerpt from Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan). © 2000 by Eduardo Galeano. Translation © 2000 by Mark Fried.
Dec 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano