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Wired
October 2001
Erik Davis |
The Fellowship of the Ring Wherein an Oxford don and his ragtag army of fans turn a fairy tale about hobbits into the ultimate virtual world. Can any movie ever do it justice?   |
Salon.com
October 14, 2001
Gavin McNett |
The black sheep A critic of Islam and the Third World, cranky, controversial and politically incorrect V.S. Naipaul is the most daring choice for the Nobel Prize in literature in years... |
JavaWorld
October 2001
Gregg Sporar |
RMI books hit the shelves At last! New books dedicated to Java's Remote Method Invocation technology have arrived in bookstores. This article reviews and compares two new Java RMI books so you can choose the best one for your programming needs... |
Salon.com
October 10, 2001
Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
How Americans feel about their flag In her book "Flag: An American Story," photographer Lauri Lyons documents our mixed emotions about the Stars and Stripes... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Man Who Made Wall Street Finally Gets Credit In a persuasive biography called The Man Who Made Wall Street, Dan Rottenberg makes the case that, for most of his career, J. Pierpont Morgan never made a move before getting an opinion from Anthony J. Drexel... |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Charles Taylor |
Saying goodbye A stripper makes a farewell tour of America and says "Stripping takes out of me things that I didn't even realize I had." A review of "Strip City" by Lily Burana... |
Outside
October 2001
Peter Stark |
The Sting of the Assassin In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, Peter Stark combines true life science with chilling scenarios of fatal hazards in the wild— -- including deadly stings, drowning, falling, and heatstroke... |
Reason
October 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Red Errings A 1947 cover of the kids' monthly, Calling All Boys, appears in a new collection of Cold War images entitled Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture by Steven Heller and Michael Barson. J. Edgar Hoover's central presence in the image is of interest... |
Salon.com
October 4, 2001
Donna Minkowitz |
The living and the dead At 72, Ursula Le Guin returns to Earthsea to mend the wounds that have long divided her fantasy world... |
Salon.com
October 3, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
The invisible nightmare Biological weapons are not that hard to produce, says a sober new book written before Sept. 11 -- and they're getting easier all the time... |
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