Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings
Telluride, Toronto and After For folks involved in film, seasonal clocks can be set by the annual confluence of international film festivals (Telluride, Toronto, New York, Edinb...
Oct 4, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
NYC’s Mayoral Muddle NYC’s Mayoral Muddle
In our August 20 issue we endorsed Mark Green, a lifelong liberal who has been running as a liberal centrist, for mayor of New York City. Two weeks before a runoff election aga...
Oct 4, 2001 / Editorial / Michael Tomasky
Indispensable Indispensable
(An old Nat "King" Cole song, as sung by Rudy "King" Giuliani) Indispensable, that's what I am. I'm an icon now, like Uncle Sam. I'm the rock this town is built up...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Intelligence Test Intelligence Test
Another Pearl Harbor! That was the reaction of many after hijackers managed to turn airliners into low-tech cruise missiles and kill 6,000 people.
Oct 3, 2001 / Feature / David Corn
Coming Together in Union Square Coming Together in Union Square
With downtown Manhattan below 14th Street initially closed off to the public after the terrorist attacks of September 11, people began to gather spontaneously in Union Square Park...
Sep 30, 2001 / Feature / Adina Schecter and Sarah Yahm
Looking for Mr. Goodbomb Looking for Mr. Goodbomb
Every good hunter is uneasy in the depths of his conscience when faced with the death he is about to inflict on the enchanted animal. He does not have the final and firm convicti...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
The Beat The Beat
PEACEFUL JUSTICE In every region of the country, a movement for a "justice, not vengeance" response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon is...
Sep 27, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Back to the Future Back to the Future
"It looked just like a movie." Need I say which? Independence Day, for sure. The Towering Inferno, for those who remember it. Or Titanic, the ship gone up instead of down, with no...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / B. Ruby Rich
Letter From Ground Zero: September 27, 2001 Letter From Ground Zero: September 27, 2001
I was somehow unprepared by television for what I saw when I arrived at Ground Zero.
Sep 27, 2001 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
What Spain Interrupted What Spain Interrupted
Antonio de Herrera, the royal chronicler of Philip II, writing about the conquest of the New World in Historia General, included these lines: The nations of New Spain preserved...
Sep 27, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans