Rain Man Rain Man
In his novel A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone invents this old American saying: "Mickey Mouse will see you dead." I have spent many profitable hours mulling over that coinage; an...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘The First Environmentalists’ ‘The First Environmentalists’
For thirty years, since the publication of Silent Spring and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the growth of the environmental movement has been fueled with sorrow for the decimatio...
Jan 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
‘The Last Uprising’ ‘The Last Uprising’
At the time of writing, Carl Bromley had just returned from a pilgrimage to Truffaut's grave in Paris.
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Rescuer Down Under Rescuer Down Under
I would call Holy Smoke a drawing-room comedy if the film showed a drawing room, a comedy of manners if its characters had any.
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Benjamin & the City of Light Benjamin & the City of Light
In September 1940, with a weak heart and even frailer nerves, Walter Benjamin carried on an old smugglers' path in the French Pyrenean foothills a big black briefcase stuffed wit...
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield
Of Scientists and Spies Of Scientists and Spies
After thirty years spent building the Federation of American Scientists into one of the country's most valuable and venerable institutional voices for peace, democracy and real s...
Jan 13, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Round the World in 80 Ways Round the World in 80 Ways
John Ghazvinian is completing a PhD at Oxford University on the early history of tourism.
Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Ghazvinian
Saying It Ain’t So on Joe Saying It Ain’t So on Joe
The cold war has been over for a decade but it lingers on the American home front.
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley I. Kutler
Y2K: The Prequel Y2K: The Prequel
Our New Year's number is a mother goose with three eggs tucked behind. It could be a sign of cryptic rhymes and unhatched possibilities--or maybe of silliness, tailed by a lot of...
Jan 6, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?
Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...
Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels