Mitchell Paints a Picture Mitchell Paints a Picture
In Empire Falls, Richard Russo’s neo-Dickensian novel of a dying mill-town in central Maine, the high school art teacher is portrayed as something of a soul-killer. Indiffere…
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Hey, He’s Bruce Hey, He’s Bruce
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, reunited to tour behind The Rising, came to Madison Square Garden on August 12, they juxtaposed "41 Shots," Springsteen's powerful so...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?
Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle-- Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl, Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma's boy could be, those kids...
Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin
In Cold Type In Cold Type
As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for childre...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Soul of the Worker The Soul of the Worker
I was born into the House of Labor. My father was a Teamster who drove a truck for thirty-five years. He died with his first retirement check in his pocket, uncashed.
Aug 28, 2002 / Editorial / Dennis Kucinich
What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK. By Stephen L. Carter. Knopf. 657 pp. $26.95.
Aug 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Greens at the Crosswords Greens at the Crosswords
Greens at the Crosswords Micah Sifry's August 1, 2001 Nation Online article, "Greens at the Crossroads," sparked a number of letters from many of those active in the Gree...
Aug 23, 2002 / Letters / Micah L. Sifry and Stanley Aronowitz
Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World
Doomed by the incoherence of a foreign policy defined largely by biblical notions of the struggle between good and evil, the Bush Administration thrashes about in its hunt for th...
Aug 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Sour Thoughts for Dog Days Sour Thoughts for Dog Days
Let's start with Cynthia McKinney. Don't you think that if Arab-American or African-American groups targeted an incumbent white, liberal, maybe Jewish, congressperson, and ship...
Aug 15, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
‘Murder by Public Policy’ ‘Murder by Public Policy’
I am writing this review in the midst of a Chicago heat wave, almost exactly seven years after the heat disaster that killed nearly 800 people in the city. The Chicago Tribune's m...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo