Intelligentsia at Play Intelligentsia at Play
Tom Stoppard's 'Coast of Utopia'
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carol Rocamora
My Guitar Gently Weeps My Guitar Gently Weeps
"I was in a highly unshaved and tatty state," John Lennon said of his 1966 meeting with a certain conceptual artist, then mounting her first show at London's Indica Gallery.
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alex Abramovich
The Humanitarian Temptation The Humanitarian Temptation
In 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan posed a question to the Millennium Summit of the UN: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on s...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
There Is No Silver Lining There Is No Silver Lining
With Republicans in full control in Washington, next year's prospects are grim.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / David Helvarg, Jack Newfield, and Jeffrey Chester
Antiwar Labor Pains Antiwar Labor Pains
Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Waiting for Bioterror Waiting for Bioterror
Is our public health system ready?
Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Katherine Eban
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls "Femicons" (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cath...
Nov 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Call and Answer Call and Answer
Robert Bly, with David Ray, founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War in 1967; it sponsored many rallies and readings against the war. He is preparing a similar group to do ...
Nov 21, 2002 / Robert Bly
Banishing Bilingualism Banishing Bilingualism
Within the next decade, 30-40 percent of current public school teachers in the United States will retire, opening up more than 700,000 teaching positions.
Nov 21, 2002 / Herbert Kohl and Susan Katz