… caused a sense of outrage among U.S. Jewry. On September 26 about 120 leaders of Jewish organizations met in … you might offend some Jews in your state.” This view pinpoints the underlying strength of the Jewish political … court actions in the defense of Arab . rights, FCC complaints alleging pro-Israel bias, and other activity …
Essays
… For each of us, says Proust, there may be “certain bodies, certain callings, certain rhythms that are specially … frontier, taking the risk, disdaining the status quo, but also landing the movie deal. What happens to the American … offers two artist figures, both of whom were masks for competing aspects of Pound’s artistic identity: the effete …
Photography
… photographic career is vast, seemingly borderless. His bodies of work include American teenagers in juvenile … Korean activists protesting Japan’s treatment of WWII “comfort women”; a day in the life of Los Angeles’s Ethiopian … neighborhoods have been the site of community-building but also intercommunal violence; collective defense during the …
… chair to the reading of his last speech in the Senate, he died in 1850. More than any, other, Calhoun was the … leaders did not rely upon planting, but began to look to commerce and industry. Also, the ranks of those who … preconceived hostility. Such a recital will give many added points to steer by. But there must be constructive proposal …
Editor's Desk
… be releasing a series of multimedia projects—created as companions to the print photo essays—here on the blog, … release of the special issue, we’re also launching a new website of reporting from Afghanistan by Elliott Woods. The … among a rising generation of storytellers by finding new audiences for their work and a new business model for …
… Mark Twain, by Stephen Leacock. New York: D. Appleton and Company. $2.00 per volume. The painting of personality, … It is the biographer’s business so to manipulate his materials as to give the reader a clear sense of personality, the … puritanical sense of propriety. Huck Finn’s indignant comment on his morning treatment—”They comb me all to …