Profiles in Cowardice Profiles in Cowardice

Senate Democrats are preparing to take a dive on the issue they have righteously hammered for four years--the estate tax.

Jun 29, 2005 / William Greider

Shoot the Piano Player Shoot the Piano Player

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year
when the swallows did not come back

you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are
the right time after all

not according to
however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black
footprints the tracks
of words that have passed that way
before me I come
again and again to
your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Mother Nature’s Son Mother Nature’s Son

Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ross Benjamin

Prosaic Judgments Prosaic Judgments

Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Theater of Cruelty The Theater of Cruelty

The detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historical prison practices.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh

Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness

America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.

Jun 29, 2005 / Feature / Mike Davis

Beyond Gay Marriage Beyond Gay Marriage

By engaging the marriage debate only in terms of "gay rights," progressives have put themselves in a losing position.

Jun 29, 2005 / Feature / Richard Kim and Lisa Duggan