Only Too Happy to Oblige
Sucking up: a brief history
Read MoreJuly/August 2004
Fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Banana Yoshimoto, and Damon Galgut; poetry by Billy Collins, M. NourbeSe Philip, Di Brandt, and Marilyn Hacker; Bill Cameron argues that the unclarified legal status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is only hurting the cause of justice; Thaddeus Holownia photographs Walden Pond…
Lake Shore
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …
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Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …
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A Moveable Feast
The Mediterranean Diet, an essentially American myth, is at last coming to the Mediterranean region itself
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The Downsized Dream Car
On the Smart Car, a tiny automotive experiment that is not much bigger than a desk chair
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Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
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What Lies Beneath
“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The underwater world is like the world where dreams or art live. It’s not clear whether the …
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The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay
Omar Khadr has been held incommunicado by the United States for almost two years. He could be a terrorist, but without due process we may never know
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China Beach, Then and Now
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …
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