Rhythm Nation Rhythm Nation
Since Fidel Castro's brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ann Louise Bardach
Liberal Hawk Down Liberal Hawk Down
This essay is adapted from Anatol Lieven's next book, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, to be published this month by Oxford University Press.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Anatol Lieven
When Presidents Lie When Presidents Lie
Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
‘There Are No Innocents’ ‘There Are No Innocents’
An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the...
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Cockburn
Springsteen for Change Springsteen for Change
A culture war's going on. The 2004 election does not merely pit red states against blue states; it places the cultural community against the Bush establishment.
Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / David Corn
Signs of Our Times Signs of Our Times
Under the Radar magazine commodifies dissent--in a good way.
Oct 1, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
iCinema iCinema
Fussing repetitively with a lock of blond hair, nervously flashing an incomplete set of front teeth, the figure on screen begins to cough up her "testimony" in the accents of a S...
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
This Canadian Life This Canadian Life
The reviewer's galley of Natasha, David Bezmozgis's short-story collection about a Russian émigré family in Toronto, begins with words not from the writer but the p...
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / D.T. Max
The Human Stain The Human Stain
The question has been asked: Was Franz Kafka human? He seems to have had doubts himself.
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
The Enigma of Return The Enigma of Return
In the largest exodus in recorded history, millions of refugees migrated across the brand new border after India was partitioned in 1947.
Sep 30, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar