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Girls, Interrupted Girls, Interrupted

Chris Kraus reviews Cool for You, by Eileen Myles.

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Chris Kraus

Double Enmity Double Enmity

Noah Isenberg reviews Communazis, by Alexander Stephan.

Dec 14, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg

Daniel Singer Daniel Singer

Death came as a release for Daniel Singer on December 2, but we feel like protesting its rude intrusion.

Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors

Long Playwright’s Journey Long Playwright’s Journey

You've got to understand what Sam Shepard meant to us. There are those who know Shepard as a movie star and those who discovered him, earlier on, when he won the Pulitzer ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

STILL LOSING RUSSIA "As a result of the Yeltsin era, all the fundamental sectors of our state, economic, cultural and moral life have been destroyed or looted," lamented Alexand...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Keepers of the Word Keepers of the Word

O Marvel, that one can give to another what one does not possess. O Miracle of our empty hands.       --George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon

Ce N’est Pas un Président Ce N’est Pas un Président

All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.       --John Lennon Florida's electoral mishegoss lends itself to the exploration of an issu...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Korea’s Fallout Korea’s Fallout

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the so-called forgotten war was finally remembered. With the Associated Press's Pulitzer Prize-winning "revelation" a year ago that h...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Juhae Lee

Lennon’s Greatest Hits Lennon’s Greatest Hits

December 8, 2000: It was twenty years ago today that Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside the Dakota on West 72nd Street in New York City, bringing whatever was...

Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

To Hell in His Handbasket To Hell in His Handbasket

Travel writing is a dismal art. From Herodotus, wide-eyed (and perhaps more than a little disoriented) in an India of man-eating ants and black sperm; to Ibn Batuta, the fourteen...

Nov 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Akash Kapur

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