Books and Ideas

The Scourge of Baltimore The Scourge of Baltimore

As truth-tellers, journalists remain the undocumented aliens of the knowledge industry, operating in an off-the-books epistemological economy apart from philosophers and scient...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

The Naked Truth The Naked Truth

If you've never set foot in the likes of Club Paradise, Scarlett's, New York Dolls, Secrets, Peepers or the boldly named Booby Trap (yes, it does exist), your image of a strip ...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey

Update on Arming America Update on Arming America

Michael Bellesiles, the historian accused of research falsification in his book Arming America, a study of gun culture, announced on October 25 that he was resigning from Emory...

Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Big Labor’s Little Problem Big Labor’s Little Problem

At a "Lean Workplace School" for union members, sponsored by the monthly magazine Labor Notes in 1996, the discussion centered around how to fight employers' speed-up and worke...

Nov 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Slaughter

Taslima’s Pilgrimage Taslima’s Pilgrimage

"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meredith Tax

‘The Heart’s Garden’ ‘The Heart’s Garden’

The day that Kenneth Rexroth died was not a dark, cold day.

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

Excursions in the Real World Excursions in the Real World

Why is so much fiction written in our language and why is so much of what is written of so little consequence?

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Smith

Sociobiology and You Sociobiology and You

If Steven Pinker's latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the fina...

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steven Johnson

What Would Jesus Do? What Would Jesus Do?

It's easy to find fault with Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott's sixth novel.

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Innes

The Right Way to Have Sex The Right Way to Have Sex

Debbie Nathan is an attendee of Feminist Futures, a New York-based study group whose organizers include Leonore Tiefer.

Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan

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