Tales of the Texas Border Tales of the Texas Border
They're back now, but Texas's few living elected Democrats, who fled to Oklahoma pursued by minions of the law, are said to remain unrepentant. The proximate cause was a redist...
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Molly Ivins
Medium Cool Medium Cool
In the film from which there is no escape and no going back, The Matrix, the writer-director team of Andy and Larry Wachowski presented a grim choice between truth and illusion...
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Fight Club Fight Club
Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
She’s So Heavy She’s So Heavy
In 1981 Carolyn Forché published a slim collection of verse, her second, titled The Country Between Us.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meghan O’Rourke
Sex and the City Sex and the City
From the mid to the late 1920s, the German painter Christian Schad produced a group of paintings like little else in modern art.
May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Road Map or Road Kill? Road Map or Road Kill?
The chief flaw of this plan is its failure to focus on the Israeli occupation.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Rashid Khalidi
On the Road (Map) On the Road (Map)
Rejectionists on both sides are trying to undermine the fledgling initiative.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Hillel Schenker
Offering Hope–at a Price Offering Hope–at a Price
US drug firms make the choice clear: our outrageous profits or your life.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Katharine Greider
Letter From Vietnam Letter From Vietnam
If Americans have done their best to forget the war, so have the Vietnamese.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / Peter Davis
Local Heroes Local Heroes
Eight state legislators who are making a difference.
May 22, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols