Lost in America Lost in America

"When I write, I bid farewell to myself," Jimmy Santiago Baca said in 1992. "I leave most of what I know behind and wander through the landscape of language." This is a memorable...

Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Kenny Boy Kenny Boy

(A Houston version of the Irish folk song) Oh, Kenny Boy, your friends are disappearing. They don't know you, much less your kvetchy wife. Yes, it's sad when pols that y...

Feb 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Letter From China Letter From China

While the elite embrace globalization, the anger of workers and peasants grows.

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Jiang Xueqin

Ellison Unbound Ellison Unbound

"I remind myself that much of television is now comic strip," Ralph Ellison told TV Guide in 1988. It is not surprising that the author of Invisible Man would be uncomfortable wi...

Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe

Letters Letters

PIERRE BOURDIEU Chicago I must say that Katha Pollitt's exquisite and moving memorial to Pierre Bourdieu ["Subject to Debate," Feb. 18] brought a little warm...

Feb 14, 2002 / Our Readers

How Enron Did Texas How Enron Did Texas

Enron, maker of big promises and big donations, stands revealed as a four-flusher.

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Nate Blakeslee

Post-Campaign Reform Reform Post-Campaign Reform Reform

Hurray for campaign finance reform--well, kind of.

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / David Corn

‘At Issue is the Shape of American Democracy’ ‘At Issue is the Shape of American Democracy’

Like last year's freewheeling Senate debate on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, this week's debate on the House version of McCain-Feingold, the Shays-Meehan bill,...

Feb 14, 2002 / John Nichols

A Fair Vote in San Francisco A Fair Vote in San Francisco

On March 5 San Franciscans will have the opportunity to vote for an electoral system that elected "Red Ken" Livingstone as London's Mayor and Mary Robinson as Ireland's Preside...

Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / Eric C. Olson

From Garvey to Jackson From Garvey to Jackson

THE MARCUS GARVEY AND UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION PAPERS.
Edited by Robert A . Hill. University of California Press.