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The Spanish Mien The Spanish Mien

V.S. Pritchett, whose essays are an invaluable companion, a sort of Dante's Virgil in the navigation of modern literature, once described Don Quixote as "the novel that killed a c...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two

If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FÉMINISME "Feminism...is the most popular and most effective movement to emerge from the sixties left," writes Katha Pollitt in her introdu...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Retour du Socialisme? Retour du Socialisme?

Paris Will Paris become the first large city in France (indeed, the first major city or national capital anywhere in the world) to elect an openly gay candidate as mayor--the S...

Mar 1, 2001 / Frédéric Martel

A Fete for the End of the End of History A Fete for the End of the End of History

At Brazil's "counter-Davos," democracy was in; elitism, corporations were out.

Mar 1, 2001 / Feature / Naomi Klein

In Fact… In Fact…

MCCARTHYISM ALIVE AND WELL IN NH New Hampshire State Senator Burt Cohen thought that putting up a plaque honoring the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would provide a history lesson about...

Mar 1, 2001 / The Editors

The Pardoner’s Tale The Pardoner’s Tale

During his closing weeks in office, Bill Clinton refused a plea, signed by many leading lawyers and civil libertarians, that he declare a moratorium on capital punishment. The mora...

Mar 1, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own

I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.       --Michel Foucau...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity

Bush’s Bogus Budget Bush’s Bogus Budget

The loudest applause during George W. Bush's first budget address to Congress--a thumping, shouting, jump-to-your-feet outpouring of enthusiasm--erupted in response to his first m...

Mar 1, 2001 / The Editors

Bosnian Women Witness Bosnian Women Witness

About a year and a half ago I received a book from Bosnia. Its title was I Begged Them to Kill Me. It was a collection of some forty accounts by Muslim women who were raped, mostl...

Mar 1, 2001 / Slavenka Drakulic

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