Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages Web Journalism’s Sticky Pages
Legendary New York Times obit writer Alden Whitman once observed, "Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more tha...
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel
Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith
That the abused child will defend its parent is no arcane phenomenon of child psychology--hell, we've seen it on Law and Order.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson
On Culturing a Union On Culturing a Union
American labor still pays lip service to the idea that it seeks "bread and roses too"--a higher standard of living, plus the chance for workers to enjoy some of the finer thing...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early
The Fourth Estate’s Estate The Fourth Estate’s Estate
Soon after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the reporter Martha Gellhorn made her way to Dachau. There she interviewed a recently liberated doctor who told her how the Germans im...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Robert W. Snyder
Not So Pretty Horses, Too Not So Pretty Horses, Too
William Eastlake once gave William Kittredge a piece of advice about writing as a Westerner. Never allow a publisher to put a picture of a horse on the cover of your novel: "Th...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors
Letter to America Letter to America
My hope: empathy, compassion, the capacity to imagine that you are not unique
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ariel Dorfman
Changing History Changing History
Editor's Note: One year after the attacks, Eric Foner assessed the impact of 9/11 on the way America tells the story of itself and readjusts its relationship with the world. ...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
For the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Ce...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / MartÃn Espada
Mary McCarthy at 90 Mary McCarthy at 90
Mary McCarthy would have turned 90 on June 21, a fact that is itself astonishing to those who remember her flagrant youth, when her sharp style made her the most feared and forthri...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Morris Dickstein
Gilded Age II Gilded Age II
How did it all start? What triggered the 1990s political corruption, its inequality in wealth and its stock market bubble? This is the decade that Kevin Phillips rails against in ...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Alice H. Amsden