The Bend in Their Rivers The Bend in Their Rivers
Amitava Kumar reviews Salman Rushdie's Fury and V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar
The Jewish Cossack The Jewish Cossack
John Leonard reviews The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
Hooked on Narcomyths Hooked on Narcomyths
Peter Schrag reviews Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter's Drug War Heresies.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Schrag
Stargazing and Sufi Poetics Stargazing and Sufi Poetics
Ian Trump reviews Robert Bly's The Night Abraham Called to the Stars.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ian Tromp
In a Vigilant State In a Vigilant State
This Fall Books issue explores the theme of the observant author.
Nov 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
London After Bloomsbury London After Bloomsbury
A review of On the Wing: A Young American Abroad, by Nora Sayre.
Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Hazel Rowley
Expressway to Yr Skull Expressway to Yr Skull
Indie rock, once the soundtrack of the 1980s and early '90s, is largely gone, but it had a rich history.
Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Star
The Thin Blue Line The Thin Blue Line
A review of Training Day, a film by Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke.
Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
The Orchid Flower The Orchid Flower
Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour. Even to white- haired craggy poet, it's purely erotic, pistil and stamen, pollen, dew of the world, a spoonful of earth, and water. Erotic because there's death at the heart of birth, drama in those old sunrise prisms in wet cedar boughs, deepest mystery in washing evening dishes or teasing my wife, who grows, yes, more beautiful because one of us will die.
Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sam Hamill
Sweatshops, Firsthand Sweatshops, Firsthand
A review of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie.
Nov 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Martinez