Earth in the Balance Earth in the Balance
It is life that Joy Williams is after in this book about (at times overwhelmingly or bizarrely) death. Ill Nature means her anger, her attitude, but it really means sick Nature. ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy
Review of Review of
Afghanistan. By Angus Hamilton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5 net.
Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Race to Bomb The Race to Bomb
After the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, some have asked whether the West hadn't sown the seeds of its own destruction. That's not a new idea: A hundred years ago, ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Trevor Corson
Ecobuilding’s New Mortar Ecobuilding’s New Mortar
The marching order to "leave nothing but footprints" enlisted an infantry of green builders this season, before our collective attention turned to security. While our man from th...
Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay
The Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem The Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem
For Hana Amichai Inside a domed room photos of children's faces turn in a candlelit dark as recorded voices recite their names, ages and nationality. "Ah, such beautiful fac...
Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Philip Schultz
Code of Misconduct Code of Misconduct
Michael Ignatieff has written eloquently from some very cruel places--Rwanda, Bosnia, Afghanistan.
Oct 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Erika Munk
The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
The conflict between Roth and Howe was partly temperamental, but some of it was generational.
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer The Complex Fate of the Jewish-American Writer
As early as the 1960s, influential critics argued that American Jewish writing no longer counted as a distinct or viable literary project, for younger Jews had grown so ass...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings
Telluride, Toronto and After For folks involved in film, seasonal clocks can be set by the annual confluence of international film festivals (Telluride, Toronto, New York, Edinb...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
‘Manifest Duplicity’ ‘Manifest Duplicity’
Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans these days.
Oct 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith