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In a speech intended to frighten the American people into supporting a war, the President Monday again trotted out his grim depiction of Saddam Hussein as a terrifying boogeyman haunting the worl

Something about Al Gore brings out the worst in people, and nowhere is this truer than in the so-called “liberal media.” Journalists’ “default” position on Gore, Joe Klein notes, is “ridicule.

It’s a scary little world right now. Such wars of careless words. Such panic on every breeze. If Eskimos have a hundred words for snow, we have let bloom a thousand words for fear.

October surprises are built into our system, since elections come in November. Cliffhanger movies in Hollywood’s old days could not have staged it better.

The Torch could not make folks forget
The graft for which he’s cited.
The only slogan left to use
Was “Never been indicted.”

After I saw In the Bedroom, Todd Field’s moving film based on Andre Dubus’s short story “Killings,” I was delighted when a slim volume of Dubus’s stories arrived here at The Nation.

The park was very large. We drove
for some time through a beautiful wood
until the wood ceased, and the house came into view.

Although he does not record CDs, Robin Kelley may well be the hippest intellectual in the land. There is plenty of substance to ground the style.

Near the end of Jazz Modernism, Alfred Appel Jr.

A few months ago, novelist Alan Furst, in one of those New York Times “Writers on Writing” pieces, told how, on a magazine assignment to the Soviet Union back in 1983, he suddenly discov

Brenner’s World