Spy Games Spy Games
Reviews of The Bourne Ultimatum and The Simpsons Movie.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Spirited Away Spirited Away
Two writers explore the perversion of our collective imagination and the ways that science and myth shape our understanding of spirituality.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Laqueur
from The Larger Nature from The Larger Nature
A sanction gone awry
was my portion to cultivate
Giveth and taketh away
This is how adaptation occurs
A perpetual recycling
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Pam Rehm
Stars and Bars Stars and Bars
How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
The Diana/Whore Complex The Diana/Whore Complex
The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Sacco & Vanzetti Today Sacco & Vanzetti Today
History sheds no new light on their guilt or innocence. But it does make clear that their trial and execution was an unjust and intolerable act of barbarism.
Aug 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Moshik Temkin
End of the Affair End of the Affair
The Nation Cruise drops its final anchor and its highly politicized passengers head for home.
Aug 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch
A Rally in Juneau A Rally in Juneau
Veterans for Peace in Juneau greeted the Nation cruise when it docked in their city with a rally against the war.
Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
The Stuff of Heartbreak The Stuff of Heartbreak
When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplati...
Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
I Didn’t Throw Ralph Nader Overboard I Didn’t Throw Ralph Nader Overboard
In her latest shipboard dispatch, one passenger resists fear of global warming, is charmed by Rocky Anderson and manages not to do what so many others have contemplated.
Jul 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch