Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait
It's rude of me to speak of Todd Haynes's new picture as if it were a symptom; but then, he's the one who's always consulting doctors.
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique
Judy Chicago
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
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
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 Real IRA The Real IRA
This is the best book yet written about the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eamonn McCann
Letting Out the (War) Dogs Letting Out the (War) Dogs
They say that war is hell, and Chris Hedges shows us how and why. Hedges's War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning painfully and profoundly illustrates how violent conflict destro...
Oct 31, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Joseph Nevins
‘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
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
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
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