A Soldier’s Story A Soldier’s Story
In the annals of American politics Winning Modern Wars is an unusual book.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Frances FitzGerald
The Name of Love The Name of Love
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Haslett
Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote
On the page, Patricia Highsmith could inspire a law-abiding citizen to become a willing accomplice to murder, at least within the realm of the imagination.
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kera Bolonik
Memoirs of a Revolutionist Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Who can recall the late Stokely Carmichael's first name and not associate it with the two most incendiary words of the 1960s, Black Power?
Nov 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Norman Kelley
Full Moon Full Moon
Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through. Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
Man Making the Bed Man Making the Bed
Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord, by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eamon Grennan
2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by ...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert Wrigley
New York State of Mind New York State of Mind
After two elegantly written, consistently engaging, critically praised, ambitious if not entirely satisfying novels, the prodigiously gifted Colson Whitehead has given the read...
Nov 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Phillip Lopate
Lost Causes Lost Causes
Nations, like individuals, sustain trauma, mourn and recover. And like individuals they survive by making sense of what has befallen them, by constructing a narrative of loss a...
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Laqueur
A Configuration of Themes A Configuration of Themes
This essay--Edward W. Said's first piece for The Nation from the magazine's May 30, 1966, issue--is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everyth...
Oct 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Edward W. Said