¡Que Viva Mexico! ¡Que Viva Mexico!
For years it was one of those intriguing asterisk marks in many a great writer's career--a book that might have been but wasn't.
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Kerr
Among the Believers Among the Believers
Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a deft and ambitious four-part biography interweaving the lives of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy and Flannery O'Conn...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Vince Passaro
The Mark of Cain The Mark of Cain
Somewhere, and it's not in this new Everyman's Library edition, James M. Cain betrayed a state secret when he said that "a writer can only write two hours a day." The truth in ...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tolkin
Far From Heaven Far From Heaven
During the early years of the civil rights revolution, Theodore Bilbo, the ferocious segregationist senator from Mississippi, published a book titled Take Your Choice: Separati...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind
The Other Iran The Other Iran
In the deformed, malignant years of the Ayatollah and the mullahs, women in Iran in the 1980s sometimes found subversive ways to mutiny against the cruelties imposed on them by...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gloria Emerson
Nonagenarians Against Cynicism Nonagenarians Against Cynicism
Nothing deepens your cynicism quicker than the power of money in American politics.
May 29, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
White Lies White Lies
The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man.
May 29, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt
We’re Safe From Saddam We’re Safe From Saddam
A Joyous Song of Deliverance for Spring
May 29, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin