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...

By • Sep 05,2004

Absolutely Not

General Order Number One forbids U.S. personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan from having any damn fun.