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By Richard Rorty. Cambridge. 355 pp. Paper $18.95. Witnessing the great American philosopher Richard Rorty at his moment of media crossover--the costume change from bookish anchorite to willing soundbite, from [...]

By David Rudenstine. California. 416 pp. $34.95. On June 13, 1971, President Richard Nixon woke up to startling headlines in The New York Times about a 7,000-page top-secret Department of [...]

THE COLUMBUS PAPERS. By Mauricio Obregon. Macmillan. 96pp. $100. It was exactly 500 years ago this month that three small, unprepossessing ships landed on a small coral island in the [...]

By Guy Davenport. Counterpoint. 339 pp. $25. On the long march through the woods of the world, humankind seeks a lamp by which it will be led. And so before [...]

The end of history, billed as the terminal victory of the free market, has turned out to be a rather tumultuous affair. That is nowhere more true than in the [...]

Media events have a life of their own. Consider the launch of the so-called Tiananmen Papers. On January 7, Mike Wallace interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes an anonymous person in [...]

In a spirited newsroom above Atlanta's Peachtree Street, amid the page proofs and status lists, the fast-food bags and soda cans, hangs a banner covered with scrawled messages, one of [...]

When CBS lawyers spiked a 60 Minutes interview with a former tobacco executive who wanted to criticize the industry, a door opened to a story that is only beginning to [...]

Did Dan Moldea have to sue The New York Times? How does a self-described free speecher help the cause by bringing libel charges against the one American newspaper that considers [...]

Which side should book critics and First Amendment stalwarts be on when free expression clashes with the right of the world's most powerful newspaper to publish what it wants, and [...]

On the morning of his second inauguration, President Clinton worshiped at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, near the White House. The Rev. Jesse Jackson preached. Because the event coincided with the [...]

Boulder, Colo. DANIEL ELLSBERG--VIETNAM'S 'MYTH'? * Early in his review of my book Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg ['Pentagon Papers Chase,' July 9], H. Bruce Franklin [...]

Washington, DC * My dear Katha, First, I should thank you for writing to me as if you thought it mattered what I said ['Subject to Debate,' November 25], and [...]

* After finishing his term as New York mayor in a glow of post-September 11 glory, Rudy Giuliani reverted to his old control-freak self. He made a quickie arrangement transferring [...]

WILD MAN: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. By Tom Wells. St. Martin's/Palgrave. 692 pp. $32.50. "The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg." What a marvelous subject! Does any [...]

On January 11, 1996, a young American woman was sentenced to life in prison in Peru for treason. Now documents have surfaced that shed new light on her case The [...]

When conservatives attack Supreme Court decisions (admittedly an increasingly rare event these days), they inevitably charge 'judicial activism.' Miranda warnings, the right to abortion, the exclusionary rule--all are condemned for [...]

Moscow Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some [...]

One Paper That Wouldn't Shut Up Press coverage of the 'insurance crisis,' or 'civil liability crisis' or whatever you want to call it, is a mess. Reporters and editors seem [...]

Reed Irvine Rides The Paper Tiger After seven months of existence Accuracy in Academia, the organization seeking to root out the dissemination of 'disinformation or misinformation' by radical professors, looks [...]

I am uncertain of just when in the recent past the expression 'works on paper' entered the art world's lexicon, but my sense is that it was initially a dealer's [...]

The fight for Michael Dukakis's (take your pick) soul, mind or ear is on. That's the belief of a number of progressive policy joks who are currently compiling reams of [...]

WHITE PAPER: On Contemporary American Poetry. 'Eighty years ago, or even half that number,' queries critic J.D. McClatchy, 'what did the fledgling poet face? A few lions, the long shelf, [...]

As Vermont Goes THE VERMONT PAPERS: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale. You will know, comparing the subtitle of this book with my bio below, where my sympathies lie. This [...]

Pen and paper. You make it sound like bread and butter or, as I'd say, sun and ram. I seem to have survived the saw and caustic bath since once [...]

AS A NATURALIZED AMERICAN CITIZEN I TAKE MY patriotism very seriously. Today, more than ever, patriotism involves seeing the United States within the realities of ever-closer global interdependence. Narrow-based patriotism [...]

The Pulitzer Prize for general reporting this year went to the Lawrence Eagle- Tribune for what The New York Times described as 'an investigation that uncovered flaws in the state [...]

PAPER What an idea that you can put it on a piece of paper what is a piece of paper and how can you tell put it on a piece [...]

In December 1979, one month after the hostages were taken in Iran, President Jimmy Carter ordered four highlevel State Department officials to compile a massive study of U.S. involvement in [...]

SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. By Daniel Ellsberg. Viking. 498 pp. $29.95. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is Daniel Ellsberg's story of [...]

THE NEW LEFT AND THE 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 3. Edited by Douglas Kellner. Routledge. 288 pp. $69.95. ADORNO: A Political Biography. By Lorenz Jager. Translated by [...]

Alberto Gonzales's nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General put the Abu Ghraib torture scandal back on the front pages, since he was directly implicated, as White House counsel, [...]

With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a [...]

Let Them Eat Attitude Dandysme, progenitor of the avant-garde, is an old idea that won't quit the cabaret. Like an aging torch singer, it keeps staging comebacks, playing to audiences [...]

ROSE. By Li-Young Lee. BOA Editions Limited 71 pp. Paper $8. THE CITY IN WHICH I LOVE YOU. By Li-Young Lee. BOA Editions Limited. 90 pp. 18. Paper 9. Sometimes [...]

THE PROPHET ARMED: Trotsky 1879-1921. By Isaac Deutscher. Verso. 496 pp. Paper $20. THE PROPHET UNARMED: Trotsky 1921-1929. By Isaac Deutscher. Verso. 444 pp. Paper $20. THE PROPHET OUTCAST: Trotsky [...]

OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES. By Lore Segal. New Press. 312 pp. Paper $14.95. HER FIRST AMERICAN. By Lore Segal. New Press. 287 pp. Paper $14.95. In no literature in the world [...]

ORWELL: The Life. By D.J. Taylor. Holt. 466 pp. Paper $17. The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century. By Scott Lucas. Pluto. 324 pp. Paper [...]

The Weather. By Lisa Robertson. New Star. 78 pp. Paper $12. Cunt-Ups. By Dodie Bellamy. Tender Buttons. 65 pp. Paper $12.95. Darling. By Honor Moore. Grove Atlantic. 65 pp. Paper [...]

THE TRIBE. By Jean-Michel Mension. City Lights. 132 pp. Paper $14.95. Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968. Edited by Dark Star. AK Press. 120 pp. Paper [...]

Economics and Culture. By David Throsby. Cambridge. 224 pp. Paper $19.95. Market Society. By Don Slater and Fran Tonkiss. Polity. 233 pp. Paper $29.95. At work recently, I went to [...]

THE TIANANMEN PAPERS New York City * Edward Jay Epstein in 'The 'Tiananmen Papers'' [Feb. 5] retails a story about 15,000 pages of secret Chinese documents being hand-copied even though [...]

SOCIALIST REGISTER 2000: Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias. Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. Monthly Review. 293 pp. Paper $23. SPACES OF HOPE. By David Harvey. California. 297 pp. Paper [...]

SUNDANCING. John Anderson. Avon. 268 pp. Paper $12.50. CINEMA OF OUTSIDERS. Emanuel Levy. NYU. 600 pp. $34.95. CELLULOID MAVERICKS. Greg Merritt. Thunder's Mouth. 464 pp. Paper $18.95. WHOM GOD WISHES [...]

THE SISTERS: New and Selected Poems. By Josephine Jacobsen. The Bench Press. 132 pp. $18. Paper $9. ADIOS, MR. MOXLEY. By Josephine Jacobsen. The Jackpine Press. 158 pp. $17.95. Paper [...]

I got a letter the other day. It bore the masthead of The St. Cloud Times, complete with the Gannett-owned Minnesota paper's motto: 'People--Integrity--Information--Profit.' It was from the paper's publisher, [...]

MAKING THE NEWS: A Guide for Nonprofits & Activists. By Jason Salzman. Westview Press. 289 pp. Paper $19.95. Making social change a career choice can be an exotic form of [...]

NATURE AND MADNESS By Paul Shepard. Foreword by C.L. Rawlins. Georgia. 178 pp. Paper $17.95. The question of where and when it was that humankind took the wrong mm that [...]

THE TENDER CARNIVORE AND THE SACRED GAME By Paul Shepard. Foreword by George Sessions. Georgia. 302 pp. Paper $17.95. The question of where and when it was that humankind took [...]

THINKING ANIMALS: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence. By Paul Shepard. Foreword by Max Oelschlaeger. Georgia. 274 pp. Paper $17.95. The question of where and when it was that [...]