print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
Will to Power
One day in June 1974, a novice Israeli politician named Ariel Sharon drove into the northern West Bank. In a field of thistles south of the Palestinian city of Nablus, the short, bulky ex-general joined a hundred young activists from a radical right-wing protest movement who were busily setting up a new settlement. The activists' aim was to ensure that Israel retained permanent rule of the entire West Bank, in defiance of the policy of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who'd taken office just two days before. Sharon, known for his obsession with maps and topography, had personally chosen the spot
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006
Handmaid's Tale
Comic-book writer Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the much-lauded Watchmen, insists that his three-volume graphic novel, Lost Girls, be viewed as pornography—a provocative sound bite if ever I've heard one. Produced in collaboration with artist Melinda Gebbie, the oversize boxed set has been sixteen years in the making. During this period, it's assumed mythic proportions, eagerly anticipated by some, reviled by others, assumed unpublishable by many.
There's no denying the seductive brilliance of Moore's writing. Like most American women, I'm a
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print • Sept/Oct/Nov 2006