In Cold Type In Cold Type
When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking, B...
Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’
In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue
Sensation Sensation
A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Twenty Years On Twenty Years On
Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...
Apr 4, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
Is There a Future for Pacifica? Is There a Future for Pacifica?
The jury is still out on whether it can restore, let alone enhance, its influence.
Mar 28, 2002 / Feature / Susan J. Douglas
Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing
Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...
Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Year of the Yellow Notepad The Year of the Yellow Notepad
Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin, ejected from Parnassus, Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism c...
Mar 21, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
In Cold Type In Cold Type
The new Daedalus is out. I have to admit to having not read Daedalus with much fervor in the past, say, fifteen years (well, if ever, to be honest), but I was curious about the ve...
Mar 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Enron, the Media and the New Economy Enron, the Media and the New Economy
The Houston company was part of the biggest "big idea" of the past decade.
Mar 14, 2002 / Feature / Jeff Madrick