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Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution

This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).

Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif

The New Product Placement The New Product Placement

Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York's Yale Club at a convention called "Advertising & Promoting to Kids" in search of new, higher-paying clie...

Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Segall

Partying on the Right Partying on the Right

We all had our youthful indiscretions that haunt or amuse us for the rest of our lives. Mine was conservatism.

Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / Doug Henwood

Copyright Monopolies Copyright Monopolies

Big Media won another battle in the escalating war over copyright on January 15, when the Supreme Court upheld a 1998 law extending copyright terms by twenty years, to life plu...

Jan 30, 2003 / Andrew L. Shapiro

Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter

The worse the state treats kids, the more the state's prosecutors chase after inoffensive "perverts" in the private sector who have committed the so-called crime of getting sex...

Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Class Warfare Class Warfare

My son collects my change--the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.

Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Great Pension Crunch The Great Pension Crunch

How the crisis is destroying jobs--and what can be done about it.

Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / Robin Blackburn

Alternative Voices on Campus Alternative Voices on Campus

Progressive journals are key in creating a movement, but they lack support.

Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / Emma Ruby-Sachs and Timothy Waligore

A Once-Bright Star Dims A Once-Bright Star Dims

The flagship of American conservative campus publications stands on the foundation of twenty years of attention-grabbing antics.

Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / Emma Ruby-Sachs and Timothy Waligore

Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun

Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...

Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook

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