What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW.
By Anthony Trollope.
Oxford. 1,024 pp. $11.95.
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
How 9/11 Changed Our Lives How 9/11 Changed Our Lives
How 9/11 Changed Our Lives Hundreds of readers, aged 16 to 94, replied to our request for letters detailing how September 11 changed (or didn't) "your views of your g...
Sep 5, 2002 / Our Readers
Mourning and Modernism After 9/11 Mourning and Modernism After 9/11
Can function follow form?
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Casey Nelson Blake
A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero
The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana
Map to Ground Zero Map to Ground Zero
The footprints of clashing interests.
Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Nobel
The Left and 9/11 The Left and 9/11
Sparks fly in the debate over the war on terror.
Sep 5, 2002 / Feature / Adam Shatz
Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace Dick Cheney’s Nightmare of Peace
In the dreams of Dick Cheney, to which I am not privy, I imagine there are boldly contrasting scenes of victory and despair.
Sep 4, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Book Reviewing, African-American Style Book Reviewing, African-American Style
On April 14, my review of Maya Angelou's A Song Flung Up to Heaven appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. I finally assessed the book thusly: In writing that is bad to ...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Wanda Coleman
Letters Letters
MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF... Princeton, NJ In an accurate review of Jonathan Marks's loosely argued What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee, Micaela di Leonardo ...
Aug 29, 2002 / Micaela di Leonardo, Peter Sacks, Peter Singer, and Rebecca Zwick
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