Shmeer the Kids In Shmeer the Kids In
(An Upper East Side Sea Chanty Sung to the tune of 'Blow the Man Down')
Nov 20, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions
President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- ...
Nov 19, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care Gore Switches Gears on Health-Care
When the Clinton-Gore administration attempted to reform the nation's approach to financing health care in 1993 and 1994, the one proposal that administration aides always rejecte...
Nov 15, 2002 / John Nichols
Renoir All Over Again Renoir All Over Again
Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you to p...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Back in the USSR Back in the USSR
The study of the Soviet Union in the United States, as distinguished from random journalism, memoirs and polemics, began on the right foot.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg
The Bride & the Bottle Rack The Bride & the Bottle Rack
The idea of craft is an unanticipated product of the Industrial Revolution.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Mystery in Milan Mystery in Milan
On March 16, 1972, readers in Italy and throughout the publishing world were shocked by the day's headlines.
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin
A Sex of One’s Own A Sex of One’s Own
Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein
Atop the Volcano Atop the Volcano
Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politics a...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Anderson Tepper