The Misuses of Allegory The Misuses of Allegory

Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

The New Yorker Goes to War The New Yorker Goes to War

In its first issue after the fall of the World Trade Center, The New Yorker published a handful of short reaction pieces by John Updike, Jonathan Franzen and others about the h...

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

Dare Call It Treason Dare Call It Treason

Few traditions are more American than freedom of speech and the right to dissent.

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner

We Are the Patriots We Are the Patriots

Americans who oppose the Cheney-Bush junta demonstrate sanity, not cowardice.

May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Gore Vidal

Partisan Requiem Partisan Requiem

The announcement a few weeks ago that Partisan Review was closing shop after a run of nearly seventy years brought sadness--since PR at its best was a central site of American ...

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Brooks

The Revolution Within The Revolution Within

In the current national climate, the notion that Washington might learn from the experience of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev would strike most as...

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robert D. English

Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society

It is agonizingly difficult to write about one's hometown as it drowns in flames and suffocates with smoke.

May 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon

Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’03 Prizewinners

The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y.