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
The Clash of Ignorance The Clash of Ignorance
Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Edward W. Said
Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: October 4, 2001
Our own ‘phony war.’
Oct 4, 2001 / Jonathan Schell
All in the Name of Security All in the Name of Security
The Administration is using September 11 to curtail our civil liberties.
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro
NYC’s Mayoral Muddle NYC’s Mayoral Muddle
In our August 20 issue we endorsed Mark Green, a lifelong liberal who has been running as a liberal centrist, for mayor of New York City. Two weeks before a runoff election aga...
Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Tomasky
Indispensable Indispensable
(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
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
Letters Letters
WE SHINE FOR ALL Chicago Your magazine remains a beacon of hope for all of us, even those who revile you for your progressive values--because we all lose...
Oct 4, 2001 / Our Readers
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
A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by Americans? And should they be so compared? ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens