By • Sep 11,2004

The future of 9/11

September 11, three years later. It seems like an eternity since the attacks, but for some it feels like just yesterday. The names of the lost were read aloud again...

By • Sep 11,2004

Not going gently

Is there anything Julian Barnes can’t do? One of Britain’s leading literary lights, Barnes is the author of nine novels (including Flaubert’s Parrot, a slightly metafictional meditation on the author of Madame...

By • Sep 06,2004

Rebels without a cause

Report from the Republican convention in New York: This election is more important than most, and the the battle lines are curiously drawn.

By • Sep 05,2004

Dispatch: Generation Zip

It was 1999. Downtown Seattle had just been ravaged by WTO protesters. They smashed the windows at Starbucks, tore down advertisements, and suffered tear gas and plastic handcuffs. A respectable...