The Other Iran The Other Iran
In the deformed, malignant years of the Ayatollah and the mullahs, women in Iran in the 1980s sometimes found subversive ways to mutiny against the cruelties imposed on them by...
May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gloria Emerson
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
"Birds of America," by Lorrie Moore
May 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Shayna Cohen
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
The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory
Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans
Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason
Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Revolution Within The Revolution Within
In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English
Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society
It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.
May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
McCarthy’s Secret Show McCarthy’s Secret Show
Victor Navasky's Naming Names (Hill & Wang) was recently reissued in paperback with a new afterword.
May 8, 2003 / Victor Navasky
Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
The Intuitionist The Intuitionist
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they're writing.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / E.L. Doctorow