Books and Ideas

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.

Mar 30, 2000 / Feature / Tariq Ali

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

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