The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed The Undertaker’s Art, Exhumed
"It's a great mistake not to feel pleased when you have the chance," a rich, disfigured spinster advises a frail, well-mannered boy in The Shrimp and the Anemone, the first novel ...
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Stationary Stationary
Perhaps time is our invention To make things seem to move Like the uncovering tail of the blue jay As it lights its feet on the wet Trembling wood. Perhaps the seasons are really n…
Apr 11, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Laura Manuelidis
The Balfour Declaration The Balfour Declaration
Great Britain grants a homeland to the homeless Jews.
Apr 5, 2002 / Feature / H. M. Kallen
The Body Shop The Body Shop
There are those opposed to the use of cloning technology to create human embryos for stem-cell research whose concerns emanate from commitments to social justice. One of their arg...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ralph Brave
The Keyboard Campus The Keyboard Campus
"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the printed...
Apr 4, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Brier and Roy Rosenzweig
The Fishnet Fallacy The Fishnet Fallacy
When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, gir...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Elaine Blair
The China Syndrome The China Syndrome
Like it or not, America has been able to achieve and maintain its supremacy as a global power because of its capacity to absorb the best from the rest of the world. This dependenc...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic
Song of the Sunshine State Song of the Sunshine State
Campbell McGrath's entertaining and frustrating fifth book of poems--every single one of them devoted to some aspect of Florida--raises two large questions. One has to do with rep...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
Sonnet: Against Making Blood Speak Out Sonnet: Against Making Blood Speak Out
If I die one day from the bullet of a young killer-- a Palestinian who crosses the northern border-- or from the blast of a hand grenade he throws, or in a bomb explosion while I'...
Mar 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Meir Wieseltier
Populism: The Thriller Populism: The Thriller
A few years ago I concocted a theory about John Grisham I was too lazy to prove. Here was the hypothesis: This bestselling author was the most successful popularizer of populist n...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / David Corn