All 10 articles by Joe Knowles

• 19 Aug 03

• Views

  Trading in Terror

  What does it take to end a career in public service? Mere treason evidently doesn’t cut it,... MORE »

• 07 Apr 03

• Culture

  To See or Not To See

  The images we saw on TV last night ... were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were... MORE »

• 14 Feb 03

• Culture

  Poets Against the War

  When First Lady Laura Bush decided to host a literary salon on February 12 about “Poetry and the American... MORE »

• 17 Jan 03

• Features

  The Pirates of Hollywood

  The language of film may be universal, but don’t tell that to the Motion Picture Association of... MORE »

• 06 Dec 02

• Culture

  The Play of the Waves

  The word “ineffable” is a paradox: If something is truly too great for words, why have a word... MORE »

• 25 Oct 02

• Culture

  Spirited Away

  With a little help from a rotund forest spirit, a teen-age witch and the odd flying pig, Hayao... MORE »

• 07 Jun 02

• Culture

  Popcorn and Sake

  In Hirokazu Kore’eda’s 1998 film After Life, the dead discover that there is no heaven or hell,... MORE »

• 26 Nov 01

• Culture

  A Little Help For Our Friends

  When major newspapers are shrinking their book review sections, and fine magazines like Feed and Lingua Franca have... MORE »

• 06 Aug 01

• Views

  Milosevic’s Reckoning

  In history's vast and dark gallery of murderous heads of state, Slobodan Milosevic is the first to be... MORE »

• 14 May 01

• Culture

  Christopher’s Kind

  Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere By Christopher Hitchens Verso 358 pages, $25 It has been my amazing and... MORE »