Poetry Poetry
After Troy Not quite putting on what little power or knowledge pigeons lay claim to, she nonetheless bids them come. Launched off cornices,
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Barsamian
Her Own Lambs and Falcons Her Own Lambs and Falcons
It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer
Passages to India Passages to India
In the early 1920s, E.M.
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
The New U The New U
While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp
Pakistan on the Brink Pakistan on the Brink
Pakistan today is a complete mess, a sad example of what can happen when a once-favored "frontline state" is reduced to the status of a cold war orphan.
The ‘Casanova of Causes’ The ‘Casanova of Causes’
To her biographer, Simone de Beauvoir confided a less than rhapsodic one-night stand, in 1946, with the Hungarian malcontent Arthur Koestler: "One night I got so drunk I let him ...
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Honor the Blacklistees Honor the Blacklistees
After last year's brouhaha surrounding the presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, one member of the academ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
All the President’s Mien All the President’s Mien
Leon Aron, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has over the past few years become known as an authority on Boris Yeltsin, a man he patently likes and has vig...
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Abraham Brumberg
Executioners’ Songs Executioners’ Songs
The Control Equipment such as Voltage Regulators, Auto Transformers, Oil Circuit Breakers, Panel Board, etc., was designed by and supplied by General Electric Company.
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski