Peace in Our Time Peace in Our Time
The twin towers had barely toppled before the ubiquitous Henry Kissinger was on TV proclaiming the gravity of the assault and the urgency of American retaliation. The Forrest Gump...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carolyn Eisenberg
Respite in a Minor Key Respite in a Minor Key
I would like an unbroken stretch of drizzly weekday afternoons, in a moulting season: nowhere else to go but across the street for bread, and the paper. Later, faces, voices...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker
The Devil Made Us Do It The Devil Made Us Do It
"God Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder," the satirical magazine The Onion has proclaimed, citing "His confusing propensity to alternately reward and punish His creations with little...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Wendy Kaminer
Earth in the Balance Earth in the Balance
It is life that Joy Williams is after in this book about (at times overwhelmingly or bizarrely) death. Ill Nature means her anger, her attitude, but it really means sick Nature. ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Joseph McElroy
Can Mark Green Heal NYC? Can Mark Green Heal NYC?
New York's Democratic mayoral primary revealed the city's racial fault lines.
Oct 18, 2001 / Feature / Jack Newfield
Letter From Ground Zero: October 18, 2011 Letter From Ground Zero: October 18, 2011
Seven Million at Risk
Oct 18, 2001 / Editorial / Jonathan Schell
Operation Enduring Protest Operation Enduring Protest
Liza Featherstone will be reporting periodically on the antiwar movement for The Nation. This article is part of the Haywood Burns Community Activist Journalism series, sponsored ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
The Left Debates September 11 The Left Debates September 11
The Left Debates September 11 The
Oct 17, 2001 / Letters / Our Readers
Bush’s Uzbek Bargain Bush’s Uzbek Bargain
After weeks of evasion and deflection, reminiscent of two illicit lovers keen to avoid scandal, the United States and Uzbekistan announced on October 12 that they had made a deal.
Oct 17, 2001 / Feature / Dilip Hiro
The Race to Bomb The Race to Bomb
After the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, some have asked whether the West hadn't sown the seeds of its own destruction. That's not a new idea: A hundred years ago, ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Trevor Corson