On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union
American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
Chile Reception Chile Reception
Walking at a good New Yorker's clip, you would need about fifteen minutes to go between Film Forum and the World Trade Center site: a straight shot down Varick Street from thre...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Fourth Estate’s Estate The Fourth Estate’s Estate
Soon after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the reporter Martha Gellhorn made her way to Dachau. There she interviewed a recently liberated doctor who told her how the Germans im...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
Mourning and Modernism After 9/11 Mourning and Modernism After 9/11
Can function follow form?
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake
A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero
The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana
Map to Ground Zero Map to Ground Zero
The footprints of clashing interests.
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel
The Art of 9/11 The Art of 9/11
Mama, build me a fence!
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Changing History Changing History
Editor's Note: One year after the attacks, Eric Foner assessed the impact of 9/11 on the way America tells the story of itself and readjusts its relationship with the world. ...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
For the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Ce...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / MartÃn Espada
Auteur, Auteur! Auteur, Auteur!
The streets of lower Manhattan are deserted--also spotlessly clean and glowing in the light of the golden hour--when the studio head takes the movie director outside to tell hi...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans