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The Midlands poet Roy Fisher has never aspired to a readership. All the more reason to welcome his Selected Poems.
Isaac Casaubon was a model citizen of the republic of letters—a community more durable than any church and broader than academia.
A bet on a horse in the 1949 Grand National resulted in the largest collective transfer of wealth ever to communism's stalwarts in Britain.
A novelist imagines politics in “the near future.”
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There's rarely been as enjoyable and community-minded a way to help support children's literacy.
Esther studied botany and biochemistry, and ended up serving Cokes to arms dealers in Delhi’s Hotel Shangri-La. She is a station holder, occupied and rootless. Welcome to India Shining.
Who gives a [insert expletive] about an Oxford comma?
Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American workers.
The article presents the poem "If George W. Bush Had Worked Up The Nerve To Ask Dick Cheney To Be More Forthcoming About His Hunting Accident," by Calvin Trillin. First Line: Perhaps there's some more info you could share. Last Line: Just take a walk.
A cartoon about United States political leaders is presented.
Corrections to the articles "A Letter to the American Left," by Bernard-Henri Lévy and "Exile on K Street," by Jeremy Scahill that were published in the February 20, 2006 issue are presented.
The article presents the poem "On the Report by House Republicans (Yes, Republicans) That Excoriates the Bush Administration For Its Fumbling Response to Hurricane Katrina," by Calvin Trillin. First Line: Though Bushmen had claimed that word never reached; Last line: But others as well did a heckuva job.
The article looks at why the United States Congress passed the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the similarities between Presidents Richard Nixon and George W. Bush in their authorization of warrant-less wiretaps. Operation Shamrock and Operation Minaret were two abuses by the National Security Agency that prompted Congress to pass the Surveillance Act. The article examines other wiretap abuses by Nixon, including the Salisbury intercepts and the Huston Plan.
The article presents the poem "Government's the Problem," by Calvin Trillin.
Corrections to articles in previous issues including "Subject to Debate" by Katha Pollitt in the January 16, 2006, Pollitt's column in the January 30, 2006 issue and ¿The New Face of the Campus Left,¿ by Sam Graham-Felsen in the February 13, 2006 issue are presented.
The article presents the poem "I Dreamt That George W. Bush Adopted James Frey's 3-Step Program--Denial, Larry King and Oprah--To Get to the Truth About the War in Iraq," by Calvin Trillin. First Line: At first, when people said he'd lied, Last Line: For thousands, though, it comes too late.
The author comments on U.S. President George W. Bush's defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of Americans. Richard Nixon infamously defended his approval of warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens involved in the 1970s antiwar movement. Nixon was proved wrong. Bush appears not to have learned the lesson that Presidents are not above the law. This government's assertion of uncheckable executive powers is one of several myths the Administration has propagated in a public relations effort to convince the public of a transparently unconvincing argument.
A poem by Calvin Trillin is presented, entitled "On Roy Blunt's Promise To Reform Lobbying Rules If He Becomes House Majority Leader." First line: I must be blunt where Blunt's concerned: Last line: Then I'm the Sultan of Brunei.
