Letter to America Letter to America
Dear America:
This is a difficult letter to write, because I'm no longer sure who you are. Some of you may be having the same trouble.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Margaret Atwood
To the Unfinished To the Unfinished
Clear eminence without whom I would be
nothing oh great provision never seen
barely acknowledged even wished away
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin
The Tragedy of William O. Douglas The Tragedy of William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a judicial record-setter.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David J. Garrow
A Stone Unturned A Stone Unturned
Someone once described Graham Greene as the novelist of decolonizing Britain.
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith
Respectfully Yours Respectfully Yours
Richard Sennett is best known in the United States for his 1972 book (written with Jonathan Cobb), The Hidden Injuries of Class. That study of white working-class men, how they...
Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Linda Gordon
Dispatch From Spain Dispatch From Spain
The Spanish capital took on the air of a battle zone the weekend after the war began, as antiwar protesters clashed with riot police throughout the city.
Mar 27, 2003 / Feature / Samuel Loewenberg
Postwar Democracy? Iraq is a Hard Place Postwar Democracy? Iraq is a Hard Place
The angry guy with the shoe.
Those who have been watching the war on television are familiar with the video footage: after the US military took cont...
Mar 26, 2003 / David Corn
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.
Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Keeping Hope Alive Keeping Hope Alive
You can be forgiven if, like me, you were a bit depressed to hear that the war had started. But this is no time to go into a funk.
Mar 25, 2003 / William D. Hartung