Looking Backward, Going Forward Looking Backward, Going Forward
A review of Looking Backward 2000–1887, by Edward Bellamy.
Jan 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Robert L. Weinberg
A Taste for Desert Landscapes? A Taste for Desert Landscapes?
A review of Sol LeWitt's Autobiography.
Jan 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Circus Maximus Circus Maximus
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Jan 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano
All That Jazz All That Jazz
Let's cut to the chase on Ken Burns's Jazz, which rolled out on PBS January 8, by invoking Wallace Stevens. 1) Is it entertaining TV? Mostly, in PBS fashion. ...
Jan 12, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
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
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
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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