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Slide Show: Reconstructing the Story of the Storm

Slide Show: Reconstructing the Story of the Storm Slide Show: Reconstructing the Story of the Storm

Editor’s note: To mark the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are presenting once again this slide show of images and recollections, first published on August 26, 201…

Aug 26, 2010 / Photo Essay / The Nation

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Five years ago next week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Henry Glover was found burned in a charred sedan overlooking the Mississippi River in New Orleans...

Aug 26, 2010 / Press Room

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Five years ago next week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Henry Glover was found burned in a charred sedan overlooking the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The ...

Aug 26, 2010 / Frontline

The Terrorists Win

The Terrorists Win The Terrorists Win

Nine years after 9/11, hatred of Islam has infected many Americans. How else can we explain the opposition to an Islamic community center two blocks away from where the attacks too...

Aug 25, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman

No Name or Too Many? On Javier Marías

No Name or Too Many? On Javier Marías No Name or Too Many? On Javier Marías

In Javier Marías's trilogy Your Face Tomorrow, the self is composed of borrowed languages and an uncertain voice.

Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

The Pithy Serpent The Pithy Serpent

everyone knows satan is just a guy with a lot of special efx a pithy serpent who plucks apples from the garden of lost trees I'm an ancient bystander whose chronology is less sympathetic and more cave-like think of me as an obscene gesture a plain ordinary obscene gesture in a place where the weather is nice and the people don't have a clue

Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Brinks

An Art of Time An Art of Time

Rafael Ferrer and Christian Marclay prize an aesthetic of spontaneous responsiveness irrespective of subject.

Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

from ‘Revelator’ from ‘Revelator’

Eternity in the present only I shut my eyes, inhale deeply to hear five speakers' simultaneous yatter, squirrels up high in the cedars bark, dog golden terrier blend all taut muscle, sinew o'er bone, jaw pauses mid-air in flight, just ahead of the Frisbee's grasp

Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ron Silliman

The Book of Amos: On Gideon Levy The Book of Amos: On Gideon Levy

Because of Gaza, "everything is tainted" in Israel, according to Gideon Levy.

Aug 25, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich

Puzzle No. 1598 Puzzle No. 1598

This puzzle originally appeared in the September 13, 1975, issue.

Aug 25, 2010 / Frank W. Lewis

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