In Cold Type In Cold Type
Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many ways...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
In this season's Granta, Fintan O'Toole, an Irish writer, speculates that the enduring appeal of the British monarch is that she makes the British crowd feel good about itself,...
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. By Anthony Trollope. Oxford. 1,024 pp. $11.95.
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for childre...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
It seems a long time ago that I stocked my pantry (pantry is a concept in Manhattan, not a reality) with two weeks' worth of emergency food (including powdered milk, an oddly c...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Southern Exposure, which somehow looks--even in its third decade, in the twenty-first century--as if very advanced high school students had just stapled it together and put it on ...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking, B...
Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
In Cold Type In Cold Type
Some magazines have an identity problem, and some don't. The New York Review of Books doesn't, as you may have noticed. It's relentlessly highbrow, which is how we like it. For t...
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz