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
Thunderstruck on the Right Thunderstruck on the Right
My sister-in-law, a historian and researcher in alternative medicine, once told me of a doctoral dissertation she'd happened across in which the writer interviewed a number of com...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tomasky
The Politics of Ethics The Politics of Ethics
By identifying ethics with civic virtue, we create an ethics of the left.
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Randy Cohen
The Emigrant The Emigrant
On December 14, the German writer W.G. Sebald died, age 57, in a car accident in England, where he had lived for thirty-five years. He had published four remarkable books: fluid, ...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel
Six Months On, and Counting Six Months On, and Counting
When it comes to the events of September 11, everyone is an expert and no one is.
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gara LaMarche
Muslim Jerusalem: A Story Muslim Jerusalem: A Story
Kanan Makiya, the Arab world's most ardent and vocal supporter of America's projected intervention in Iraq, the hammer of liberal Arab intelligentsia, the arch anti-Orientalist, h...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Turi Munthe
Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes on the real Harlem renaissance.
Mar 11, 2002 / Feature / Langston Hughes
Beam Us Back, Scotty! Beam Us Back, Scotty!
Science fiction routinely gets away with subversive gestures that would never be allowed in any realistic program. Thus it is that people who don't watch Star Trek are probably u...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Donna Minkowitz
Tree-Huggers No Longer! Tree-Huggers No Longer!
It's official now: The United States has a policy on climate change. President Bush announced it on Valentine's Day at a government climate and oceans research center. "My approa...
Mar 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Frank Ackerman