Non-fiction

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

Dade Ain’t Disney Dade Ain’t Disney

Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course.

Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill

Naipaul Writes Home Naipaul Writes Home

Many years ago, when I was about the age that V.S. Naipaul was when he departed Trinidad for England, I would borrow books by him from the library of an erstwhile colonial club i...

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / S. Shankar

Business Creates Eco-Side! Business Creates Eco-Side!

Natural Capitalism is so informative and provocative--and so unfashionably optimistic about the future of the planet--that I wonder why everyone in public life is not reading it ...

Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / William Greider

Round the World in 80 Ways Round the World in 80 Ways

John Ghazvinian is completing a PhD at Oxford University on the early history of tourism.

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Ghazvinian

Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?

Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels

What Price, Palestine? What Price, Palestine?

The plan to take Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was conceived at a cafe on the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, in the shadow of the Pantheon and the ...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Young

Exploding Plastic Inevitable Exploding Plastic Inevitable

The fifties may have been the last great moment when Americans entrusted their dreams of transformation to the material world.

Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Joanne Jacobson

Kosovo: On Ends and Means Kosovo: On Ends and Means

The spectacle of human beings acting out mindless violence through pack behavior instills more terror in the heart than perhaps any other event in the natural world.

Dec 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

How Now, Iron Johns? How Now, Iron Johns?

In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our...

Nov 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis

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