Tsunami & US Priorities Tsunami & US Priorities
As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too little a...
Jan 6, 2005 / The Editors
Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom
Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every for...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Baruch Kimmerling
Why Marwan Did Not Run Why Marwan Did Not Run
Most Palestinians now seek unity and a reprieve from the exhaustion of war.
Dec 22, 2004 / Feature / Graham Usher
The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan The Right’s Assault on Kofi Annan
How the neocons created a "scandal" to punish a critic of US foreign policies.
Dec 22, 2004 / Feature / Ian Williams
Intervention Intervention
The Jonathan Schell Reader has just been published by Nation Books.
Dec 22, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Trading Down Trading Down
In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...
Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg
Versed in Adventure Versed in Adventure
Few modern poets served so long an apprenticeship as Basil Bunting, none had so adventurous a life and few poets' lives have produced such lasting rewards.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Burt
An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist
The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin
The Literary World System The Literary World System
What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
Goodbye to All That? Goodbye to All That?
On European anti-Semitism, old and new.