Explaining ‘The Magician’ Explaining ‘The Magician’
Thomas Mann's popularity has been going the way of the Buddenbrooks family business. It is in decline.
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Unfinished Women Unfinished Women
Imaginary Friends, The Mercy Seat
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kaufman
The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures
Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Bill Frist, Bioterrorism and Visits to the Doctor Bill Frist, Bioterrorism and Visits to the Doctor
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Jan 9, 2003 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I first read Samuel Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon during the high-geek days of junior high.
Jan 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
The Question of North Korea The Question of North Korea
Korea has the bomb, but not to worry. It's not a crisis. No, we needn't hurry To get inspections back. Why try to spot The weapons they already say they've got?
Jan 8, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Hey, People: War Is No Game Hey, People: War Is No Game
As an unabashed, nail-biting Oakland Raiders fanatic who sits in the nose-bleed seats and who just bought my grandson pajamas and a dishware set emblazoned with the team's infamo...
Jan 7, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
They’re Off! Here Come the Candidates They’re Off! Here Come the Candidates
Like birds on a wire, Democratic presidential wannabes are flapping their wings and leaving the perch at the same time. Or are they more akin to lemmings? N...
Jan 6, 2003 / David Corn
The Fight for the Future of Music The Fight for the Future of Music
America stands on the cusp of a sweeping set of shifts in federal media ownership rules that could dramatically alter the nature of what we see, hear and read, warns Federal Commi...
Jan 6, 2003 / John Nichols